A-type star · white star

HR 6956

268 lybrightness mag 6.36A4/A5IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 170902 · HIP 90884

8,034 K

temperature

6.36

apparent magnitude

16.81× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A4/A5IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

268 years

at light speed from Earth

1.39×

as hot as the Sun

16.81×

the Sun's light output

1.79

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6956A-type

Sky regionScutumthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6933 →33 ly apart
HR 6769 →33 ly apart
HR 7024 →39 ly apart
HR 7205 →40 ly apart
HR 6962 →41 ly apart
HR 6969 →43 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.