A-type star · white star

HR 6679

HR 6679 is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 321 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,476 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 321 years ago.

321 lybrightness mag 6.48A1V

Also catalogued as HD 163245 · HIP 87782

9,476 K

temperature

6.48

apparent magnitude

21.64× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

321 years

at light speed from Earth

1.64×

as hot as the Sun

21.64×

the Sun's light output

1.51

absolute magnitude

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Brightness mag 6.5To 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.