F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6699

HR 6699 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Draco 184 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,362 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 184 years ago.

184 lybrightness mag 6.09F0IV

Also catalogued as HD 163929 · HIP 87744

7,362 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
10.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
184 years
at light speed from Earth
1.28×
as hot as the Sun
10.14×
the Sun's light output
2.33
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.