B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6080

HR 6080 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 459 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,231 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 459 years ago.

459 lybrightness mag 6.11B9V

Also catalogued as HD 146954 · HIP 80066

11,231 K
temperature
6.11
apparent magnitude
62.17× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
459 years
at light speed from Earth
1.95×
as hot as the Sun
62.17×
the Sun's light output
0.37
absolute magnitude
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HR 6080B-type
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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.