B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6919
HR 6919 is a blue-white star in the constellation Sagittarius 606 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,088 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 101× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 606 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 169990 · HIP 90494
10,088 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
101× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
606 years
at light speed from Earth
1.75×
as hot as the Sun
101×
the Sun's light output
-0.16
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.