B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6051

HR 6051 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 355 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,100 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 28.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 355 years ago.

355 lybrightness mag 6.41B9V

Also catalogued as HD 145964 · HIP 79599

10,100 K

temperature

6.41

apparent magnitude

28.08× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

355 years

at light speed from Earth

1.75×

as hot as the Sun

28.08×

the Sun's light output

1.23

absolute magnitude

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HR 6051B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

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Bright stars in Scorpius

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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.