F-type star · yellow-white star
Eta Sco
Eta Sco is a yellow-white star in the constellation Scorpius 73.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,669 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 20.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 73 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6380 · HD 155203 · HIP 84143 · Gliese Gl 657
6,669 K
temperature
3.32
apparent magnitude
20.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3p
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
73 years
at light speed from Earth
1.16×
as hot as the Sun
20.78×
the Sun's light output
1.56
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.