B-type star · blue-white star
Dschubba
Dschubba is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 491 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,867 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,397× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 491 years ago.
Also catalogued as Delta Sco · HR 5953 · HD 143275 · HIP 78401
11,867 K
temperature
2.29
apparent magnitude
2,397× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B0.2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
491 years
at light speed from Earth
2.06×
as hot as the Sun
2,397×
the Sun's light output
-3.60
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.