B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6176

412 lybrightness mag 6.36B9sp...

Also catalogued as HD 149822 · HIP 81337

10,868 K

temperature

6.36

apparent magnitude

39.66× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9sp...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

412 years

at light speed from Earth

1.88×

as hot as the Sun

39.66×

the Sun's light output

0.85

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6176B-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

49 Her →28 ly apart
54 Her →43 ly apart
HR 6035 →44 ly apart
HR 6227 →45 ly apart
HR 6337 →49 ly apart
HR 6121 →64 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.