A-type star · white star
HR 6986
HR 6986 is a white star in the constellation Telescopium 357 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,916 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 357 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 171819 · HIP 91461
7,916 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
48.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
357 years
at light speed from Earth
1.37×
as hot as the Sun
48.08×
the Sun's light output
0.65
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.