B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5942

556 lybrightness mag 5.43B5V

Also catalogued as HD 142990 · HIP 78246

11,440 K

temperature

5.43

apparent magnitude

170× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

556 years

at light speed from Earth

1.98×

as hot as the Sun

170×

the Sun's light output

-0.73

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5942B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5973 →27 ly apart
Fang →33 ly apart
HR 5988 →36 ly apart
3 Sco →41 ly apart
HR 5910 →47 ly apart
2 Sco →54 ly apart

Bright stars in Scorpius

Shaula →mag 1.6
Sargas →mag 1.9
Dschubba →mag 2.3
Larawag →mag 2.3
Kap Sco →mag 2.4
Acrab →mag 2.6
Lesath →mag 2.7
Paikauhale →mag 2.8

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To 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.