A-type star · white star
HR 6689
HR 6689 is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 386 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,932 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 386 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 163624 · HIP 87875
8,932 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
50.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
386 years
at light speed from Earth
1.55×
as hot as the Sun
50.96×
the Sun's light output
0.58
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.