B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6851

HR 6851 is a blue-white star in the constellation Ophiuchus 1,531 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,653 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 585× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,531 years ago.

1,531 lybrightness mag 6.29B5V

Also catalogued as HD 168199 · HIP 89677

10,653 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
585× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,531 years
at light speed from Earth
1.85×
as hot as the Sun
585×
the Sun's light output
-2.07
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ophiuchus

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.