K-type star · orange

Omega² Sco

Omega² Sco is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 291 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,189 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 131× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 291 years ago.

291 lybrightness mag 4.31G6/G8III

Also catalogued as HR 5997 · HD 144608 · HIP 78990

5,189 K
temperature
4.31
apparent magnitude
131× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6/G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
291 years
at light speed from Earth
0.90×
as hot as the Sun
131×
the Sun's light output
-0.44
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To 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.