A-type star · white star

HR 6931

HR 6931 is a white star in the constellation Corona Australis 221 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,676 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 221 years ago.

221 lybrightness mag 6.02A3V

Also catalogued as HD 170384 · HIP 90759

8,676 K
temperature
6.02
apparent magnitude
15.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
221 years
at light speed from Earth
1.50×
as hot as the Sun
15.67×
the Sun's light output
1.86
absolute magnitude
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HR 6931A-type
Sky regionCorona Australisthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Corona Australis

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.