B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6620

HR 6620 is a blue-white star in the constellation Serpens 600 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,014 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 125× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 600 years ago.

600 lybrightness mag 5.93B9V

Also catalogued as HD 161701 · HIP 87074

10,014 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
125× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
600 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
125×
the Sun's light output
-0.39
absolute magnitude
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HR 6620B-type
Sky regionSerpensthis direction
StarHR 688197 ly
StarHR 6919110 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Serpens
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Serpens

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.