B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6632

HR 6632 is a blue-white star in the constellation Ara 509 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,002 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 77.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 509 years ago.

509 lybrightness mag 6.09B9.5III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 161917 · HIP 87379

10,002 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
77.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
509 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
77.70×
the Sun's light output
0.12
absolute magnitude
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HR 6632B-type
Sky regionArathis direction
StarHR 647552 ly
StarKappa Ara66 ly
StarHR 689467 ly
StarBeta Arastar
StarAlpha Arastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Ara
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.