B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6477

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6477B-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6274 →79 ly apart
HD 151965 →98 ly apart
HR 6174 →99 ly apart
HR 6643 →100 ly apart
HR 6460 →100 ly apart
HR 6778 →110 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1

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.