B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6477

HR 6477 is a blue-white star in the constellation Ara 636 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,912 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 256× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 636 years ago.

636 lybrightness mag 5.28B8V

Also catalogued as HD 157661 · HIP 85389

10,912 K
temperature
5.28
apparent magnitude
256× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
636 years
at light speed from Earth
1.89×
as hot as the Sun
256×
the Sun's light output
-1.17
absolute magnitude
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HR 6477B-type
Sky regionArathis direction
StarHR 627479 ly
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Bright stars in Ara
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook 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.