B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6873

1,059 lybrightness mag 6.14B3Ve

Also catalogued as HD 168797 · HIP 89977

10,766 K

temperature

6.14

apparent magnitude

321× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3Ve

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,059 years

at light speed from Earth

1.87×

as hot as the Sun

321×

the Sun's light output

-1.42

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6873B-type

Sky regionSerpensthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6958 →88 ly apart
HR 7008 →110 ly apart
HR 6925 →130 ly apart
HD 167162 →140 ly apart
64 Ser →200 ly apart
HR 6590 →200 ly apart

Bright stars in Serpens

Unukalhai →mag 2.6
58Eta Ser →mag 3.2
32Mu Ser →mag 3.5
55Xi Ser →mag 3.5
Zhou →mag 3.6
37Eps Ser →mag 3.7
13Del Ser →mag 3.8
41Gam Ser →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Serpens

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.