A-type star · white star

HR 6173

HR 6173 is a white star in the constellation Ursa Minor 140 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,802 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.65× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 140 years ago.

140 lybrightness mag 5.55F0V

Also catalogued as HD 149681 · HIP 80480

7,802 K
temperature
5.55
apparent magnitude
9.65× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
140 years
at light speed from Earth
1.35×
as hot as the Sun
9.65×
the Sun's light output
2.39
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ursa Minor

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.