K-type star · orange

Epsilon Sct

Epsilon Sct is an orange in the constellation Scutum 538 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,489 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 265× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 538 years ago.

538 lybrightness mag 4.88G8II

Also catalogued as HR 7032 · HD 173009 · HIP 91845

4,489 K
temperature
4.88
apparent magnitude
265× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
538 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
265×
the Sun's light output
-1.21
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon SctK-type
Sky regionScutumthis direction
StarHR 700745 ly
StarHR 714371 ly
Star14 Aql72 ly
StarAlpha Sctstar
StarBeta Sctstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Scutum
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To 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.