A-type star · white star

HR 6435

HR 6435 is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 376 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,652 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 44.75× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 376 years ago.

376 lybrightness mag 6.03A0V

Also catalogued as HD 156717 · HIP 84792

9,652 K
temperature
6.03
apparent magnitude
44.75× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
376 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
44.75×
the Sun's light output
0.72
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.