B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6997

504 lybrightness mag 5.41B8II-IIIp..

Also catalogued as HD 172044 · HIP 91235

11,590 K

temperature

5.41

apparent magnitude

143× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8II-IIIp..

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

504 years

at light speed from Earth

2.01×

as hot as the Sun

143×

the Sun's light output

-0.54

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6997B-type

Sky regionLyrathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 7016 →40 ly apart
HR 7019 →50 ly apart
Xihe →57 ly apart
104 Her →65 ly apart
2Mu Lyr →84 ly apart
HR 7284 →86 ly apart

Bright stars in Lyra

Sulafat →mag 3.3
Sheliak →mag 3.5
13 Lyr →mag 4.1
12Del2Lyr →mag 4.2
1Kap Lyr →mag 4.3
6Zet1Lyr →mag 4.3
21The Lyr →mag 4.3
Aladfar →mag 4.4

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lyra

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.