F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 6981
HR 6981 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hercules 107 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,204 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 107 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 171746 · HIP 91159
6,204 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
3.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2Vv comp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
107 years
at light speed from Earth
1.07×
as hot as the Sun
3.09×
the Sun's light output
3.63
absolute magnitude
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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.