B-type star · blue-white star

Omega¹ Sco

Omega¹ Sco is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 471 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,738 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 487× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 471 years ago.

471 lybrightness mag 3.93B1V

Also catalogued as HR 5993 · HD 144470 · HIP 78933

10,738 K

temperature

3.93

apparent magnitude

487× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

471 years

at light speed from Earth

1.86×

as hot as the Sun

487×

the Sun's light output

-1.87

absolute magnitude

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Omega¹ ScoB-type

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.9To 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.