A-type star · white star
HR 6297
HR 6297 is a white star in the constellation Ara 169 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,210 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.97× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 169 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 153053 · HIP 83187
8,210 K
temperature
5.64
apparent magnitude
12.97× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
169 years
at light speed from Earth
1.42×
as hot as the Sun
12.97×
the Sun's light output
2.07
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.