B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6968
HR 6968 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lyra 358 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,200 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 67.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 358 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 171301 · HIP 90923
11,200 K
temperature
5.47
apparent magnitude
67.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
358 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
67.92×
the Sun's light output
0.27
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.