B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6176

HR 6176 is a blue-white star in the constellation Hercules 412 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,868 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.66× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 412 years ago.

412 lybrightness mag 6.36B9sp...

Also catalogued as HD 149822 · HIP 81337

10,868 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
39.66× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9sp...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
412 years
at light speed from Earth
1.88×
as hot as the Sun
39.66×
the Sun's light output
0.85
absolute magnitude
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HR 6176B-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
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Nearest stars
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.