A-type star · white star

HR 6955

HR 6955 is a white star in the constellation Hercules 435 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,509 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 77.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 435 years ago.

435 lybrightness mag 5.76A2V

Also catalogued as HD 170878 · HIP 90762

9,509 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
77.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
435 years
at light speed from Earth
1.65×
as hot as the Sun
77.13×
the Sun's light output
0.13
absolute magnitude
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HR 6955A-type
Sky regionHerculesthis direction
StarHR 688341 ly
StarHR 690653 ly
StarHR 688757 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hercules
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hercules

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.