B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6718

426 lybrightness mag 6.48B9sp...

Also catalogued as HD 164429 · HIP 88030

11,001 K

temperature

6.48

apparent magnitude

37.98× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9sp...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

426 years

at light speed from Earth

1.91×

as hot as the Sun

37.98×

the Sun's light output

0.90

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6718B-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6791 →24 ly apart
HR 6599 →28 ly apart
85Iot Her →39 ly apart
HR 6790 →42 ly apart
HR 6853 →48 ly apart
HR 6641 →49 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 6.5To 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.