F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 6803
HR 6803 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hercules 861 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,071 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 222× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 861 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 166479 · HIP 89023
6,071 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
222× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
861 years
at light speed from Earth
1.05×
as hot as the Sun
222×
the Sun's light output
-1.02
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.