A-type star · white star

HR 6414

HR 6414 is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 654 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,847 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 154× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 654 years ago.

654 lybrightness mag 5.89B5Vnn

Also catalogued as HD 156247 · HIP 84500

9,847 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
154× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5Vnn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
654 years
at light speed from Earth
1.71×
as hot as the Sun
154×
the Sun's light output
-0.62
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.