B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6958

991 lybrightness mag 6.41A0sp...

Also catalogued as HD 170973 · HIP 90858

10,448 K

temperature

6.41

apparent magnitude

220× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0sp...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

991 years

at light speed from Earth

1.81×

as hot as the Sun

220×

the Sun's light output

-1.00

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6958B-type

Sky regionSerpensthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6873 →88 ly apart
HD 167162 →98 ly apart
HR 7008 →140 ly apart
Bet Sct →170 ly apart
HR 7269 →180 ly apart
64 Ser →190 ly apart

Bright stars in Serpens

Unukalhai →mag 2.6
58Eta Ser →mag 3.2
32Mu Ser →mag 3.5
55Xi Ser →mag 3.5
Zhou →mag 3.6
37Eps Ser →mag 3.7
13Del Ser →mag 3.8
41Gam Ser →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Serpens

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.