A-type star · white star

HR 6955

435 lybrightness mag 5.76A2V

Also catalogued as HD 170878 · HIP 90762

9,509 K

temperature

5.76

apparent magnitude

77.13× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

435 years

at light speed from Earth

1.65×

as hot as the Sun

77.13×

the Sun's light output

0.13

absolute magnitude

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HR 6955A-type

Sky regionHerculesthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6883 →41 ly apart
HR 6906 →53 ly apart
HR 6887 →57 ly apart
HR 7198 →58 ly apart
112 Her →58 ly apart
106 Her →59 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 5.8To 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.