A-type star · white star
HR 6277
HR 6277 is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 250 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,572 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 250 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 152569 · HIP 82693
7,572 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
16.17× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
250 years
at light speed from Earth
1.31×
as hot as the Sun
16.17×
the Sun's light output
1.83
absolute magnitude
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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.