A-type star · white star

HR 6671

HR 6671 is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 979 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,287 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 299× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 979 years ago.

979 lybrightness mag 6.05B9.5III

Also catalogued as HD 162926 · HIP 87722

9,287 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
299× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
979 years
at light speed from Earth
1.61×
as hot as the Sun
299×
the Sun's light output
-1.34
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.