B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6070

HR 6070 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 135 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,027 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 135 years ago.

135 lybrightness mag 4.80A0V:

Also catalogued as HD 146624 · HIP 79881

10,027 K
temperature
4.80
apparent magnitude
17.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
135 years
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
17.85×
the Sun's light output
1.72
absolute magnitude
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HR 6070B-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
StarXi¹ Lup17 ly
StarXi² Lup23 ly
StarHR 607723 ly
StarShaulastar
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Bright stars in Scorpius
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To 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.