B-type star · blue-white star

1 Sco

495 lybrightness mag 4.63B1.5Vn

Also catalogued as HR 5885 · HD 141637 · HIP 77635

11,122 K

temperature

4.63

apparent magnitude

282× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1.5Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

495 years

at light speed from Earth

1.93×

as hot as the Sun

282×

the Sun's light output

-1.28

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

1 ScoB-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

2 Sco →9.9 ly apart
3 Sco →22 ly apart
HR 5910 →26 ly apart
Dschubba →33 ly apart
HR 6001 →37 ly apart
Iklil →39 ly apart

Bright stars in Scorpius

Shaula →mag 1.6
Sargas →mag 1.9
Dschubba →mag 2.3
Larawag →mag 2.3
Kap Sco →mag 2.4
Acrab →mag 2.6
Lesath →mag 2.7
Paikauhale →mag 2.8

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scorpius

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.