A-type star · white star

HR 6235

HR 6235 is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 493 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,225 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 77.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 493 years ago.

493 lybrightness mag 6.03A0IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 151527 · HIP 82259

8,225 K

temperature

6.03

apparent magnitude

77.20× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

493 years

at light speed from Earth

1.42×

as hot as the Sun

77.20×

the Sun's light output

0.13

absolute magnitude

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HR 6235A-type

Sky regionOphiuchusthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ophiuchus

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.