A-type star · white star

HR 6611

HR 6611 is a white star in the constellation Hercules 478 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,079 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 478 years ago.

478 lybrightness mag 6.18A3m

Also catalogued as HD 161321 · HIP 86809

8,079 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
62.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
478 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
62.98×
the Sun's light output
0.35
absolute magnitude
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HR 6611A-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 662730 ly
StarHR 665041 ly
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Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To 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.