K-type star · orange

Beta Sct

Beta Sct is an orange in the constellation Scutum 916 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,543 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,410× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 916 years ago.

916 lybrightness mag 4.22G5II...

Also catalogued as HR 7063 · HD 173764 · HIP 92175

4,543 K
temperature
4.22
apparent magnitude
1,410× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G5II...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
916 years
at light speed from Earth
0.79×
as hot as the Sun
1,410×
the Sun's light output
-3.02
absolute magnitude
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Beta SctK-type
Sky regionScutumthis direction
StarHR 7269120 ly
Star20 Aql130 ly
StarHD 174005160 ly
StarAlpha Sctstar
StarZeta Sctstar
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Bright stars in Scutum
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scutum

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.