F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6946

HR 6946 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Scutum 1,076 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,994 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 467× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,076 years ago.

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
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HR 6946F-type
Sky regionScutumthis direction
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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.