B-type star · blue-white star
22 Sco
22 Sco is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 413 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,849 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 170× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 413 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6141 · HD 148605 · HIP 80815
11,849 K
temperature
4.79
apparent magnitude
170× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
413 years
at light speed from Earth
2.05×
as hot as the Sun
170×
the Sun's light output
-0.72
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.