B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6827

HR 6827 is a blue-white star in the constellation Draco 492 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,150 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.75× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 492 years ago.

492 lybrightness mag 6.50A1Vnn

Also catalogued as HD 167387 · HIP 89104

10,150 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
49.75× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1Vnn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
492 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
49.75×
the Sun's light output
0.61
absolute magnitude
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HR 6827B-type
Sky regionDracothis direction
StarHR 644858 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.