A-type star · white star
HR 6814
HR 6814 is a white star in the constellation Hercules 775 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,596 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 199× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 775 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 166988 · HIP 89156
9,596 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
199× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
775 years
at light speed from Earth
1.66×
as hot as the Sun
199×
the Sun's light output
-0.90
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.