B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6620

600 lybrightness mag 5.93B9V

Also catalogued as HD 161701 · HIP 87074

10,014 K

temperature

5.93

apparent magnitude

125× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

600 years

at light speed from Earth

1.73×

as hot as the Sun

125×

the Sun's light output

-0.39

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6620B-type

Sky regionSerpensthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6881 →97 ly apart
HR 6919 →110 ly apart
HR 6858 →110 ly apart
HR 6706 →110 ly apart
HR 6755 →110 ly apart
29 Oph →120 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 5.9To 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.