A-type star · white star

HR 6668

707 lybrightness mag 6.10B9.5/A0III

Also catalogued as HD 162817 · HIP 87671

9,487 K

temperature

6.10

apparent magnitude

149× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5/A0III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

707 years

at light speed from Earth

1.64×

as hot as the Sun

149×

the Sun's light output

-0.58

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6668A-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6583 →45 ly apart
HR 6708 →57 ly apart
HR 6648 →84 ly apart
HR 6651 →88 ly apart
HD 160371 →93 ly apart
HR 6494 →98 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 6.1To 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.