A-type star · white star

HR 6170

HR 6170 is a white star in the constellation Draco 371 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,663 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.31× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 371 years ago.

371 lybrightness mag 5.92A2V

Also catalogued as HD 149650 · HIP 80991

9,663 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
48.31× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
371 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
48.31×
the Sun's light output
0.64
absolute magnitude
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HR 6170A-type
Sky regionDracothis direction
StarHR 636034 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Draco

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.