B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6906
HR 6906 is a blue-white star in the constellation Hercules 385 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,612 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 385 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 169820 · HIP 90337
10,612 K
temperature
6.37
apparent magnitude
34.29× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
385 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
34.29×
the Sun's light output
1.01
absolute magnitude
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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.