A-type star · white star
HR 6825
HR 6825 is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 1,424 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,444 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 632× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,424 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 167356 · HIP 89470
8,444 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
632× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,424 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
632×
the Sun's light output
-2.15
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.