G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
18 Sco
18 Sco is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Scorpius 45.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,771 K, and it shines at 1.07× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 45 years ago.
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
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.