B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6663

854 lybrightness mag 6.41Ap...

Also catalogued as HD 162725 · HIP 87624

10,125 K

temperature

6.41

apparent magnitude

163× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

Ap...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

854 years

at light speed from Earth

1.75×

as hot as the Sun

163×

the Sun's light output

-0.68

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6663B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6647 →12 ly apart
HR 6658 →30 ly apart
HR 6657 →33 ly apart
HR 6648 →63 ly apart
HD 160371 →85 ly apart
Gam1Sgr →88 ly apart

Bright stars in Scorpius

Shaula →mag 1.6
Sargas →mag 1.9
Dschubba →mag 2.3
Larawag →mag 2.3
Kap Sco →mag 2.4
Acrab →mag 2.6
Lesath →mag 2.7
Paikauhale →mag 2.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Scorpius

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.