A-type star · white star
HR 6784
HR 6784 is a white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 510 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,313 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 510 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 166095 · HIP 88862
8,313 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
62.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
510 years
at light speed from Earth
1.44×
as hot as the Sun
62.06×
the Sun's light output
0.37
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.