A-type star · white star

HR 6962

HR 6962 is a white star in the constellation Scutum 227 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,619 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 227 years ago.

227 lybrightness mag 5.74A0/A1V

Also catalogued as HD 171130 · HIP 90991

9,619 K
temperature
5.74
apparent magnitude
21.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0/A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
227 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
21.34×
the Sun's light output
1.53
absolute magnitude
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HR 6962A-type
Sky regionScutumthis direction
StarHR 694415 ly
StarZeta Sct32 ly
Star30 Sgr33 ly
StarAlpha Sctstar
StarBeta Sctstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Scutum
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.