A-type star · white star

HR 6169

HR 6169 is a white star in the constellation Hercules 521 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,412 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 60.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 521 years ago.

521 lybrightness mag 6.42A2V

Also catalogued as HD 149632 · HIP 81231

9,412 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
60.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
521 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
60.09×
the Sun's light output
0.40
absolute magnitude
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HR 6169A-type
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Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hercules

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.