B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6632

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6632B-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6475 →52 ly apart
Kap Ara →66 ly apart
HR 6894 →67 ly apart
Zet Ara →74 ly apart
HR 6289 →77 ly apart
HR 6778 →84 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?

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.