F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 6836
HR 6836 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Sagittarius 99.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,230 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.31× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 99 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 167665 · HIP 89620
6,230 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
2.31× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
99 years
at light speed from Earth
1.08×
as hot as the Sun
2.31×
the Sun's light output
3.94
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.