F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6142

2,718 lybrightness mag 5.31B1Ia

Also catalogued as HD 148688 · HIP 80945

7,468 K

temperature

5.31

apparent magnitude

4,546× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1Ia

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,718 years

at light speed from Earth

1.29×

as hot as the Sun

4,546×

the Sun's light output

-4.29

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6142F-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6260 →230 ly apart
Zet1Sco →240 ly apart
HR 6197 →260 ly apart
HR 6283 →410 ly apart
HD 152424 →430 ly apart
HR 6261 →440 ly apart

Bright stars in Scorpius

Shaula →mag 1.6
Sargas →mag 1.9
Dschubba →mag 2.3
Larawag →mag 2.3
Kap Sco →mag 2.4
Acrab →mag 2.6
Lesath →mag 2.7
Paikauhale →mag 2.8

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To 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.