B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6833
HR 6833 is a blue-white star in the constellation Sagittarius 1,113 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,506 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 393× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,113 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 167647 · HIP 89637
11,506 K
temperature
6.03
apparent magnitude
393× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3/B4IV/V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,113 years
at light speed from Earth
1.99×
as hot as the Sun
393×
the Sun's light output
-1.64
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.