G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
Omicron Sco
Omicron Sco is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Scorpius 879 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,411 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 958× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 879 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6081 · HD 147084 · HIP 80079
5,411 K
temperature
4.55
apparent magnitude
958× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
879 years
at light speed from Earth
0.94×
as hot as the Sun
958×
the Sun's light output
-2.60
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.