F-type star · yellow-white star

Graffias

Graffias is a yellow-white star in the constellation Scorpius 79.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,625 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 79 years ago.

79.4 lybrightness mag 4.84F6 IV-V

Also catalogued as Xi Sco · HR 5978 · HD 144070 · Gliese GJ 9540A

6,625 K

temperature

4.84

apparent magnitude

5.98× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F6 IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

79 years

at light speed from Earth

1.15×

as hot as the Sun

5.98×

the Sun's light output

2.91

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Scorpius

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.