F-type star · yellow-white star
Alniyat
Alniyat is a yellow-white star in the constellation Scorpius 697 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,468 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,752× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 697 years ago.
Also catalogued as Sigma Sco · HR 6084 · HD 147165 · HIP 80112
7,468 K
temperature
2.90
apparent magnitude
2,752× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
697 years
at light speed from Earth
1.29×
as hot as the Sun
2,752×
the Sun's light output
-3.75
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.