B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6852

HR 6852 is a blue-white star in the constellation Hercules 660 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,175 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 114× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 660 years ago.

660 lybrightness mag 6.24B9V

Also catalogued as HD 168270 · HIP 89684

10,175 K
temperature
6.24
apparent magnitude
114× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
660 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
114×
the Sun's light output
-0.29
absolute magnitude
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HR 6852B-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 697748 ly
Star93 Her54 ly
StarHR 688261 ly
StarKornephorosstar
StarRasalgethistar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hercules

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.