A-type star · white star

HR 6514

HR 6514 is a white star in the constellation Draco 393 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,667 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 393 years ago.

393 lybrightness mag 6.49A4V

Also catalogued as HD 158485 · HIP 85317

8,667 K

temperature

6.49

apparent magnitude

32.12× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A4V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

393 years

at light speed from Earth

1.50×

as hot as the Sun

32.12×

the Sun's light output

1.08

absolute magnitude

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HR 6514A-type

Sky regionDracothis direction

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Bright stars in Draco

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Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.