B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6532

HR 6532 is a blue-white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 441 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,290 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 441 years ago.

441 lybrightness mag 6.42B9.5V

Also catalogued as HD 159082 · HIP 85826

10,290 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
43.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
441 years
at light speed from Earth
1.78×
as hot as the Sun
43.13×
the Sun's light output
0.76
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.