A-type star · white star
HR 6917
HR 6917 is a white star in the constellation Hercules 405 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,349 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 63.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 405 years ago.
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
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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.