B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6893

HR 6893 is a blue-white star in the constellation Sagittarius 889 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,169 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 195× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 889 years ago.

889 lybrightness mag 6.30B7III

Also catalogued as HD 169398 · HIP 90336

11,169 K

temperature

6.30

apparent magnitude

195× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

889 years

at light speed from Earth

1.94×

as hot as the Sun

195×

the Sun's light output

-0.88

absolute magnitude

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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Sagittarius

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.