B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6718

HR 6718 is a blue-white star in the constellation Hercules 426 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,001 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 426 years ago.

426 lybrightness mag 6.48B9sp...

Also catalogued as HD 164429 · HIP 88030

11,001 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
37.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9sp...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
426 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
37.98×
the Sun's light output
0.90
absolute magnitude
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HR 6718B-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 679124 ly
StarHR 659928 ly
StarIota Her39 ly
StarKornephorosstar
StarRasalgethistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hercules

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.