B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6960
HR 6960 is a blue-white star in the constellation Sagittarius 1,320 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,831 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,104× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,320 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 171034 · HIP 91014
11,831 K
temperature
5.28
apparent magnitude
1,104× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,320 years
at light speed from Earth
2.05×
as hot as the Sun
1,104×
the Sun's light output
-2.76
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.