B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6873

HR 6873 is a blue-white star in the constellation Serpens 1,059 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,766 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 321× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,059 years ago.

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
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HR 6873B-type
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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.