B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6881

HR 6881 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scutum 615 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,051 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 161× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 615 years ago.

615 lybrightness mag 5.71B5V

Also catalogued as HD 169033 · HIP 90096

10,051 K
temperature
5.71
apparent magnitude
161× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
615 years
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
161×
the Sun's light output
-0.67
absolute magnitude
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HR 6881B-type
Sky regionScutumthis direction
StarHR 691964 ly
StarHR 700770 ly
StarHR 662097 ly
StarAlpha Sctstar
StarBeta Sctstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Scutum
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.