B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6875

HR 6875 is a blue-white star in the constellation Corona Australis 488 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,754 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 156× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 488 years ago.

488 lybrightness mag 5.24B2.5Vn

Also catalogued as HD 168905 · HIP 90200

12,754 K
temperature
5.24
apparent magnitude
156× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2.5Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
488 years
at light speed from Earth
2.21×
as hot as the Sun
156×
the Sun's light output
-0.63
absolute magnitude
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HR 6875B-type
Sky regionCorona Australisthis direction
StarHR 689436 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Corona Australis
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corona Australis

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.