A-type star · white star

HR 6684

HR 6684 is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 1,359 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,455 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 711× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,359 years ago.

1,359 lybrightness mag 5.82B2IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 163472 · HIP 87812

9,455 K
temperature
5.82
apparent magnitude
711× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,359 years
at light speed from Earth
1.64×
as hot as the Sun
711×
the Sun's light output
-2.28
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ophiuchus

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.