A-type star · white star
HR 6864
HR 6864 is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 538 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,699 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 82.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 538 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 168646 · HIP 90012
7,699 K
temperature
6.15
apparent magnitude
82.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
538 years
at light speed from Earth
1.33×
as hot as the Sun
82.26×
the Sun's light output
0.06
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.