B-type star · blue-white star

13 Sco

479 lybrightness mag 4.58B2V

Also catalogued as HR 6028 · HD 145482 · HIP 79404

12,945 K

temperature

4.58

apparent magnitude

276× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

479 years

at light speed from Earth

2.24×

as hot as the Sun

276×

the Sun's light output

-1.25

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

13 ScoB-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6001 →15 ly apart
HR 6054 →22 ly apart
Iklil →31 ly apart
HR 6042 →31 ly apart
Paikauhale →44 ly apart
HR 5965 →45 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.