B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6788
HR 6788 is a blue-white star in the constellation Sagittarius. Its surface is about 12,235 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30,760,968× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars.
brightness mag 6.13B2II/III
Also catalogued as HD 166197 · HIP 89086
12,235 K
temperature
6.13
apparent magnitude
30,760,968× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
2.12×
as hot as the Sun
30,760,968×
the Sun's light output
-13.87
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.