F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6946

1,076 lybrightness mag 5.77B2V

Also catalogued as HD 170740 · HIP 90804

6,994 K

temperature

5.77

apparent magnitude

467× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,076 years

at light speed from Earth

1.21×

as hot as the Sun

467×

the Sun's light output

-1.82

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6946F-type

Sky regionScutumthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6838 →170 ly apart
HR 7072 →170 ly apart
HR 7023 →170 ly apart
HR 7164 →200 ly apart
Bet Sct →200 ly apart
20 Aql →210 ly apart

Bright stars in Scutum

Alp Sct →mag 3.9
Bet Sct →mag 4.2
Zet Sct →mag 4.7
Gam Sct →mag 4.7
Del Sct →mag 4.7
Eta Sct →mag 4.8
Eps Sct →mag 4.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scutum

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.