B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6683

HR 6683 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 413 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,039 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 413 years ago.

413 lybrightness mag 6.28A0IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 163433 · HIP 87948

10,039 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
43.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0IV/V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
413 years
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
43.05×
the Sun's light output
0.77
absolute magnitude
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HR 6683B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.