B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6759

886 lybrightness mag 6.13B7/B8II

Also catalogued as HD 165493 · HIP 88859

11,279 K

temperature

6.13

apparent magnitude

227× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7/B8II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

886 years

at light speed from Earth

1.95×

as hot as the Sun

227×

the Sun's light output

-1.04

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6759B-type

Sky regionArathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6640 →62 ly apart
The Ara →97 ly apart
HR 6572 →110 ly apart
HR 7097 →130 ly apart
Iot Ara →130 ly apart
HR 6558 →140 ly apart

Bright stars in Ara

Bet Ara →mag 2.8
Alp Ara →mag 2.8
Zet Ara →mag 3.1
Gam Ara →mag 3.3
Del Ara →mag 3.6
The Ara →mag 3.6
Eta Ara →mag 3.8
Eps1Ara →mag 4.1

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ara

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.