B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6663

HR 6663 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 854 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,125 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 163× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 854 years ago.

854 lybrightness mag 6.41Ap...

Also catalogued as HD 162725 · HIP 87624

10,125 K
temperature
6.41
apparent magnitude
163× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
854 years
at light speed from Earth
1.75×
as hot as the Sun
163×
the Sun's light output
-0.68
absolute magnitude
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HR 6663B-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
StarHR 664712 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To 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.