B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6007
HR 6007 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 408 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,169 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 85.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 408 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 144987 · HIP 79199
11,169 K
temperature
5.50
apparent magnitude
85.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
408 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
85.90×
the Sun's light output
0.01
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.