B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6958

HR 6958 is a blue-white star in the constellation Serpens 991 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,448 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 220× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 991 years ago.

991 lybrightness mag 6.41A0sp...

Also catalogued as HD 170973 · HIP 90858

10,448 K
temperature
6.41
apparent magnitude
220× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0sp...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
991 years
at light speed from Earth
1.81×
as hot as the Sun
220×
the Sun's light output
-1.00
absolute magnitude
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HR 6958B-type
Sky regionSerpensthis direction
StarHR 687388 ly
StarHD 16716298 ly
StarHR 7008140 ly
StarUnukalhaistar
StarEta Serstar
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Serpens

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.