A-type star · white star

HR 6668

HR 6668 is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 707 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,487 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 149× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 707 years ago.

707 lybrightness mag 6.10B9.5/A0III

Also catalogued as HD 162817 · HIP 87671

9,487 K
temperature
6.10
apparent magnitude
149× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5/A0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
707 years
at light speed from Earth
1.64×
as hot as the Sun
149×
the Sun's light output
-0.58
absolute magnitude
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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.