A-type star · white star
HR 6755
HR 6755 is a white star in the constellation Serpens 518 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,289 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 101× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 518 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 165402 · HIP 88670
8,289 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
101× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
518 years
at light speed from Earth
1.44×
as hot as the Sun
101×
the Sun's light output
-0.16
absolute magnitude
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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.