B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6657

HR 6657 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 886 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,667 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 225× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 886 years ago.

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
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HR 6657B-type
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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.