B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6943

1,226 lybrightness mag 5.87B6IV

Also catalogued as HD 170650 · HIP 90637

11,506 K

temperature

5.87

apparent magnitude

553× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,226 years

at light speed from Earth

1.99×

as hot as the Sun

553×

the Sun's light output

-2.01

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6943B-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6820 →91 ly apart
HR 7112 →150 ly apart
HR 6924 →190 ly apart
HR 6720 →190 ly apart
HR 7081 →220 ly apart
2 Vul →240 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.