A-type star · white star

HR 6878

335 lybrightness mag 6.32B9.5V

Also catalogued as HD 169009 · HIP 90083

8,748 K

temperature

6.32

apparent magnitude

27.16× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

335 years

at light speed from Earth

1.52×

as hot as the Sun

27.16×

the Sun's light output

1.26

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6878A-type

Sky regionScutumthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6970 →18 ly apart
HD 169913 →23 ly apart
HR 6932 →28 ly apart
Gam Sct →30 ly apart
HR 6892 →30 ly apart
HR 7110 →44 ly apart

Bright stars in Scutum

Alp Sct →mag 3.9
Bet Sct →mag 4.2
Zet Sct →mag 4.7
Gam Sct →mag 4.7
Del Sct →mag 4.7
Eta Sct →mag 4.8
Eps Sct →mag 4.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Scutum

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.