B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6977

647 lybrightness mag 5.79A0Vn

Also catalogued as HD 171623 · HIP 91118

10,051 K

temperature

5.79

apparent magnitude

166× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

647 years

at light speed from Earth

1.74×

as hot as the Sun

166×

the Sun's light output

-0.70

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6977B-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6852 →48 ly apart
HR 7067 →49 ly apart
HR 6882 →67 ly apart
HR 7109 →76 ly apart
HR 6976 →89 ly apart
93 Her →100 ly apart

Bright stars in Hercules

Kornephoros →mag 2.8
Rasalgethi →mag 2.8
40Zet Her →mag 2.8
Sarin →mag 3.1
67Pi Her →mag 3.2
86Mu Her →mag 3.4
44Eta Her →mag 3.5
92Xi Her →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hercules

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.