B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6622
HR 6622 is a blue-white star in the constellation Ara 988 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,556 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 427× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 988 years ago.
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
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.