A-type star · white star

HR 6671

979 lybrightness mag 6.05B9.5III

Also catalogued as HD 162926 · HIP 87722

9,287 K

temperature

6.05

apparent magnitude

299× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

979 years

at light speed from Earth

1.61×

as hot as the Sun

299×

the Sun's light output

-1.34

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6671A-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6662 →58 ly apart
HR 6657 →98 ly apart
HR 6693 →110 ly apart
HR 6558 →120 ly apart
HR 6663 →130 ly apart
Kap1CrA →130 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 6.0To 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.