A-type star · white star

HR 6326

HR 6326 is a white star in the constellation Hercules 531 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,754 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 71.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 531 years ago.

531 lybrightness mag 6.27B9p CrEu

Also catalogued as HD 153882 · HIP 83308

9,754 K
temperature
6.27
apparent magnitude
71.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9p CrEu
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
531 years
at light speed from Earth
1.69×
as hot as the Sun
71.71×
the Sun's light output
0.21
absolute magnitude
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HR 6326A-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 648259 ly
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Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.