A-type star · white star

HR 6989

805 lybrightness mag 6.49B8II/III

Also catalogued as HD 171957 · HIP 91369

8,249 K

temperature

6.49

apparent magnitude

135× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8II/III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

805 years

at light speed from Earth

1.43×

as hot as the Sun

135×

the Sun's light output

-0.47

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6989A-type

Sky regionScutumthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6785 →100 ly apart
HR 7045 →110 ly apart
HR 7239 →110 ly apart
HD 174005 →130 ly apart
HR 7230 →130 ly apart
HR 7339 →160 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 6.5To 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.