A-type star · white star
HR 6914
HR 6914 is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 262 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,511 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.31× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 262 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 169938 · HIP 90510
8,511 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
17.31× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3/A4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
262 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
17.31×
the Sun's light output
1.75
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.