B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6912

538 lybrightness mag 6.27B8V

Also catalogued as HD 169904 · HIP 91723

11,641 K

temperature

6.27

apparent magnitude

73.65× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

538 years

at light speed from Earth

2.02×

as hot as the Sun

73.65×

the Sun's light output

0.18

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6912B-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 172226 →22 ly apart
HR 7785 →42 ly apart
Tau Oct →87 ly apart
HR 6635 →91 ly apart
Xi Oct →96 ly apart
Del2Aps →100 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
Del Oct →mag 4.3
The Oct →mag 4.8
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Octans

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.