A-type star · white star

HR 6054

HR 6054 is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 485 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,800 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 72.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 485 years ago.

485 lybrightness mag 6.06B8V

Also catalogued as HD 146001 · HIP 79622

9,800 K
temperature
6.06
apparent magnitude
72.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
485 years
at light speed from Earth
1.70×
as hot as the Sun
72.64×
the Sun's light output
0.20
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To 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.