A-type star · white star

HR 6253

HR 6253 is a white star in the constellation Ara 470 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,444 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 72.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 470 years ago.

470 lybrightness mag 5.99A0III

Also catalogued as HD 152082 · HIP 82806

9,444 K
temperature
5.99
apparent magnitude
72.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
470 years
at light speed from Earth
1.64×
as hot as the Sun
72.64×
the Sun's light output
0.20
absolute magnitude
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HR 6253A-type
Sky regionArathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.