A-type star · white star

HR 6878

HR 6878 is a white star in the constellation Scutum 335 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,748 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 335 years ago.

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
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HR 6878A-type
Sky regionScutumthis direction
StarHR 697018 ly
StarHD 16991323 ly
StarHR 693228 ly
StarAlpha Sctstar
StarBeta Sctstar
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Bright stars in Scutum
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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.