B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6657

886 lybrightness mag 6.14B4III

Also catalogued as HD 162586 · HIP 87567

10,667 K

temperature

6.14

apparent magnitude

225× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

886 years

at light speed from Earth

1.85×

as hot as the Sun

225×

the Sun's light output

-1.03

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6657B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6663 →33 ly apart
HR 6647 →44 ly apart
HR 6658 →63 ly apart
Gam1Sgr →89 ly apart
HR 6648 →95 ly apart
HR 6671 →98 ly apart

Bright stars in Scorpius

Shaula →mag 1.6
Sargas →mag 1.9
Dschubba →mag 2.3
Larawag →mag 2.3
Kap Sco →mag 2.4
Acrab →mag 2.6
Lesath →mag 2.7
Paikauhale →mag 2.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Scorpius

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.