B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6826
HR 6826 is a blue-white star in the constellation Hercules 663 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,897 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 138× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 663 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 167370 · HIP 89279
10,897 K
temperature
6.04
apparent magnitude
138× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IIIn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
663 years
at light speed from Earth
1.89×
as hot as the Sun
138×
the Sun's light output
-0.50
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.