A-type star · white star

HR 6917

405 lybrightness mag 5.81A2IV

Also catalogued as HD 169981 · HIP 90342

9,349 K

temperature

5.81

apparent magnitude

63.74× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

405 years

at light speed from Earth

1.62×

as hot as the Sun

63.74×

the Sun's light output

0.34

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6917A-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6799 →26 ly apart
HR 6904 →28 ly apart
HR 6968 →49 ly apart
HR 6807 →53 ly apart
106 Her →57 ly apart
HR 7132 →60 ly apart

Bright stars in Hercules

Kornephoros →mag 2.8
Rasalgethi →mag 2.8
40Zet Her →mag 2.8
Sarin →mag 3.1
67Pi Her →mag 3.2
86Mu Her →mag 3.4
44Eta Her →mag 3.5
92Xi Her →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hercules

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.