B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6475

HR 6475 is a blue-white star in the constellation Ara 547 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,639 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 83.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 547 years ago.

547 lybrightness mag 6.17B8/B9V

Also catalogued as HD 157599 · HIP 85393

10,639 K
temperature
6.17
apparent magnitude
83.48× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8/B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
547 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
83.48×
the Sun's light output
0.05
absolute magnitude
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HR 6475B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ara

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.