F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6164

HR 6164 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Scorpius 1,359 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,229 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 990× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,359 years ago.

1,359 lybrightness mag 5.46O9Ia

Also catalogued as HD 149404 · HIP 81305

7,229 K
temperature
5.46
apparent magnitude
990× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
O9Ia
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,359 years
at light speed from Earth
1.25×
as hot as the Sun
990×
the Sun's light output
-2.64
absolute magnitude
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HR 6164F-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
StarHD 15224882 ly
StarHR 6266110 ly
StarGamma¹ Nor220 ly
StarShaulastar
StarSargasstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Scorpius
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To 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.