B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6672
HR 6672 is a blue-white star in the constellation Sagittarius. Its surface is about 10,113 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29,376,497× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars.
brightness mag 6.18O7/O8
Also catalogued as HD 162978 · HIP 87706
10,113 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
29,376,497× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
O7/O8
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.75×
as hot as the Sun
29,376,497×
the Sun's light output
-13.82
absolute magnitude
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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.