A-type star · white star

HR 6015

HR 6015 is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 211 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,638 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 211 years ago.

211 lybrightness mag 5.86F0IV

Also catalogued as HD 145191 · HIP 79320

7,638 K
temperature
5.86
apparent magnitude
16.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
211 years
at light speed from Earth
1.32×
as hot as the Sun
16.52×
the Sun's light output
1.80
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.