A-type star · white star

HR 6642

540 lybrightness mag 6.13A1V

Also catalogued as HD 162161 · HIP 87192

9,835 K

temperature

6.13

apparent magnitude

84.33× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

540 years

at light speed from Earth

1.70×

as hot as the Sun

84.33×

the Sun's light output

0.04

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6642A-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6589 →45 ly apart
HR 6592 →53 ly apart
HR 6502 →67 ly apart
HR 6784 →69 ly apart
HR 6650 →74 ly apart
HR 6482 →74 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 6.1To 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.