B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6354

HR 6354 is a blue-white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 1,073 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,625 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 295× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,073 years ago.

1,073 lybrightness mag 6.26B8/B9II

Also catalogued as HD 154481 · HIP 83740

10,625 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
295× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8/B9II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,073 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
295×
the Sun's light output
-1.33
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.