B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6881

615 lybrightness mag 5.71B5V

Also catalogued as HD 169033 · HIP 90096

10,051 K

temperature

5.71

apparent magnitude

161× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

615 years

at light speed from Earth

1.74×

as hot as the Sun

161×

the Sun's light output

-0.67

absolute magnitude

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HR 6881B-type

Sky regionScutumthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6919 →64 ly apart
HR 7007 →70 ly apart
HR 6620 →97 ly apart
Eps Sct →99 ly apart
HR 6858 →100 ly apart
HR 6706 →110 ly apart

Bright stars in Scutum

Alp Sct →mag 3.9
Bet Sct →mag 4.2
Zet Sct →mag 4.7
Gam Sct →mag 4.7
Del Sct →mag 4.7
Eta Sct →mag 4.8
Eps Sct →mag 4.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scutum

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.