B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6619
HR 6619 is a blue-white star in the constellation Hercules. Its surface is about 10,027 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 28,313,920× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars.
brightness mag 6.22A0Ib
Also catalogued as HD 161695 · HIP 86925
10,027 K
temperature
6.22
apparent magnitude
28,313,920× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
28,313,920×
the Sun's light output
-13.78
absolute magnitude
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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.