G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

18 Sco

45.3 lybrightness mag 5.49G1V

Also catalogued as HR 6060 · HD 146233 · HIP 79672 · Gliese Gl 616

5,771 K

temperature

5.49

apparent magnitude

1.07× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

45 years

at light speed from Earth

1.00×

as hot as the Sun

1.07×

the Sun's light output

4.78

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

18 ScoG-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

Sharjah →8.6 ly apart
23Psi Ser →11 ly apart
27Lam Ser →14 ly apart
12 Oph →15 ly apart
Onkaria →15 ly apart
HR 6516 →19 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 5.5To 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.