A-type star · white star

HR 6099

HR 6099 is a white star in the constellation Norma 294 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,265 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 294 years ago.

294 lybrightness mag 6.32A2/A3V

Also catalogued as HD 147614 · HIP 80421

8,265 K
temperature
6.32
apparent magnitude
20.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2/A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
294 years
at light speed from Earth
1.43×
as hot as the Sun
20.95×
the Sun's light output
1.55
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Norma

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.