A-type star · white star

HR 6944

HR 6944 is a white star in the constellation Sagittarius 223 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,930 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 223 years ago.

223 lybrightness mag 5.12B9/B9.5V

Also catalogued as HD 170680 · HIP 90806

9,930 K

temperature

5.12

apparent magnitude

36.48× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9/B9.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

223 years

at light speed from Earth

1.72×

as hot as the Sun

36.48×

the Sun's light output

0.94

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Sagittarius

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.