A-type star · white star
HR 6680
HR 6680 is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 167 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,109 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 167 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 163318 · HIP 87836
8,109 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
11.39× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
167 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
11.39×
the Sun's light output
2.21
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.