K-type star · orange

17Chi Sco

378 lybrightness mag 5.24K3III

Also catalogued as HR 6048 · HD 145897 · HIP 79540

3,960 K

temperature

5.24

apparent magnitude

93.93× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

378 years

at light speed from Earth

0.69×

as hot as the Sun

93.93×

the Sun's light output

-0.08

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

17Chi ScoK-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

11 Sco →17 ly apart
13Zet Oph →40 ly apart
HR 6179 →53 ly apart
HR 5847 →59 ly apart
Acrab B →59 ly apart
Acrab →62 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 5.2To 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.