F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6493

HR 6493 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 98.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,961 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.15× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 98 years ago.

98.1 lybrightness mag 4.53F3V

Also catalogued as HD 157950 · HIP 85365

6,961 K
temperature
4.53
apparent magnitude
12.15× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
98 years
at light speed from Earth
1.21×
as hot as the Sun
12.15×
the Sun's light output
2.14
absolute magnitude
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HR 6493F-type
Sky regionOphiuchusthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook 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.