A-type star · white star

HR 6835

HR 6835 is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 561 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,289 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 561 years ago.

561 lybrightness mag 6.18A5V

Also catalogued as HD 167666 · HIP 89622

8,289 K

temperature

6.18

apparent magnitude

87.02× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

561 years

at light speed from Earth

1.44×

as hot as the Sun

87.02×

the Sun's light output

0.00

absolute magnitude

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Sagittarius

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.