B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6622

988 lybrightness mag 5.68B2V + B3V

Also catalogued as HD 161783 · HIP 87314

11,556 K

temperature

5.68

apparent magnitude

427× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2V + B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

988 years

at light speed from Earth

2.00×

as hot as the Sun

427×

the Sun's light output

-1.73

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6622B-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6530 →50 ly apart
HR 6487 →61 ly apart
Iot Ara →140 ly apart
Gam Ara →150 ly apart
HR 6438 →150 ly apart
HR 6447 →160 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.