B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6482

HR 6482 is a blue-white star in the constellation Hercules 500 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,342 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 59.65× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 500 years ago.

500 lybrightness mag 6.34B9V

Also catalogued as HD 157741 · HIP 85187

10,342 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
59.65× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
500 years
at light speed from Earth
1.79×
as hot as the Sun
59.65×
the Sun's light output
0.41
absolute magnitude
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HR 6482B-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 645231 ly
StarHR 643344 ly
StarHR 661148 ly
StarKornephorosstar
StarRasalgethistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hercules

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.