A-type star · white star

HR 6507

HR 6507 is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 194 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,887 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.22× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 194 years ago.

194 lybrightness mag 5.41A8V

Also catalogued as HD 158352 · HIP 85537

7,887 K
temperature
5.41
apparent magnitude
21.22× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
194 years
at light speed from Earth
1.37×
as hot as the Sun
21.22×
the Sun's light output
1.53
absolute magnitude
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HR 6507A-type
Sky regionOphiuchusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To 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.