A-type star · white star

HR 6169

521 lybrightness mag 6.42A2V

Also catalogued as HD 149632 · HIP 81231

9,412 K

temperature

6.42

apparent magnitude

60.09× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

521 years

at light speed from Earth

1.63×

as hot as the Sun

60.09×

the Sun's light output

0.40

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6169A-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6326 →62 ly apart
HR 6227 →71 ly apart
HR 6307 →84 ly apart
HR 6352 →90 ly apart
HR 5924 →92 ly apart
57 Her →97 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.