A-type star · white star

HR 6753

HR 6753 is a white star in the constellation Hercules 537 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,686 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 74.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 537 years ago.

537 lybrightness mag 6.26A2V

Also catalogued as HD 165358 · HIP 88415

9,686 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
74.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
537 years
at light speed from Earth
1.68×
as hot as the Sun
74.06×
the Sun's light output
0.18
absolute magnitude
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HR 6753A-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
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Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.