A-type star · white star
HR 6037
HR 6037 is a white star in the constellation Triangulum Australe 170 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,495 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 170 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 145689 · HIP 79797
8,495 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
9.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
170 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
9.90×
the Sun's light output
2.36
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.