B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6672

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6672B-type

Sky regionSagittariusthis direction

Star9 Sgr12,000 ly

StarHR 671615,000 ly

StarPolis33,000 ly

StarKaus Australisstar

StarNunkistar

Nearest stars

9 Sgr →12,000 ly apart
HR 6716 →15,000 ly apart
Polis →33,000 ly apart
15 Sgr →36,000 ly apart
16 Sgr →37,000 ly apart
HR 6535 →50,000 ly apart

Bright stars in Sagittarius

Kaus Australis →mag 1.8
Nunki →mag 2.0
Ascella →mag 2.6
Kaus Media →mag 2.7
Kaus Borealis →mag 2.8
Albaldah →mag 2.9
Alnasl →mag 3.0
Eta Sgr →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Sagittarius

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.