A-type star · white star

HR 6942

229 lybrightness mag 5.16A3V

Also catalogued as HD 170642 · HIP 90887

9,236 K

temperature

5.16

apparent magnitude

37.12× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

229 years

at light speed from Earth

1.60×

as hot as the Sun

37.12×

the Sun's light output

0.93

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6942A-type

Sky regionCorona Australisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6931 →12 ly apart
HR 7197 →25 ly apart
Lam CrA →26 ly apart
HR 7136 →38 ly apart
HR 6597 →39 ly apart
HR 6653 →40 ly apart

Bright stars in Corona Australis

Bet CrA →mag 4.1
Meridiana →mag 4.1
Gam CrA →mag 4.2
Del CrA →mag 4.6
The CrA →mag 4.6
Zet CrA →mag 4.7
Eps CrA →mag 4.8
Gam CrA →mag 5.0

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Corona Australis

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.