A-type star · white star

HR 6963

404 lybrightness mag 6.36A0Vn

Also catalogued as HD 171149 · HIP 90967

9,720 K

temperature

6.36

apparent magnitude

38.12× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

404 years

at light speed from Earth

1.68×

as hot as the Sun

38.12×

the Sun's light output

0.90

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6963A-type

Sky regionScutumthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6898 →47 ly apart
HR 6843 →50 ly apart
HR 6830 →51 ly apart
HR 6940 →55 ly apart
5 Aql →56 ly apart
HR 6686 →65 ly apart

Bright stars in Scutum

Alp Sct →mag 3.9
Bet Sct →mag 4.2
Zet Sct →mag 4.7
Gam Sct →mag 4.7
Del Sct →mag 4.7
Eta Sct →mag 4.8
Eps Sct →mag 4.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.