K-type star · orange
25 Sco
25 Sco is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 706 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,354 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 83.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.7 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 706 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6225 · HD 151179 · HIP 82140
4,354 K
temperature
6.72
apparent magnitude
83.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
706 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
83.71×
the Sun's light output
0.04
absolute magnitude
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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.