B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6447

889 lybrightness mag 5.76B8Ib/II

Also catalogued as HD 156942 · HIP 85169

11,046 K

temperature

5.76

apparent magnitude

321× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8Ib/II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

889 years

at light speed from Earth

1.91×

as hot as the Sun

321×

the Sun's light output

-1.42

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6447B-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6471 →65 ly apart
HD 161475 →100 ly apart
HR 6215 →130 ly apart
HR 6487 →130 ly apart
HR 6530 →140 ly apart
HR 6125 →140 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ara

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.