B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6387
HR 6387 is a blue-white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 502 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,766 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 73.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 502 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 155401 · HIP 84175
10,766 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
73.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9Vn...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
502 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
73.45×
the Sun's light output
0.18
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.