A-type star · white star

HR 6993

524 lybrightness mag 5.76A2V

Also catalogued as HD 171978 · HIP 91322

9,360 K

temperature

5.76

apparent magnitude

111× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

524 years

at light speed from Earth

1.62×

as hot as the Sun

111×

the Sun's light output

-0.27

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6993A-type

Sky regionSerpensthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 7143 →46 ly apart
HR 7144 →51 ly apart
59 Ser →59 ly apart
4 Aql →64 ly apart
14 Aql →68 ly apart
HR 7085 →69 ly apart

Bright stars in Serpens

Unukalhai →mag 2.6
58Eta Ser →mag 3.2
32Mu Ser →mag 3.5
55Xi Ser →mag 3.5
Zhou →mag 3.6
37Eps Ser →mag 3.7
13Del Ser →mag 3.8
41Gam Ser →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Serpens

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.