B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6662

HR 6662 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 1,029 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,941 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 345× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,029 years ago.

1,029 lybrightness mag 6.00B9IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 162724 · HIP 87616

10,941 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
345× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV/V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,029 years
at light speed from Earth
1.90×
as hot as the Sun
345×
the Sun's light output
-1.50
absolute magnitude
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HR 6662B-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.