B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6174

HR 6174 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 627 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,838 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 150× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 627 years ago.

627 lybrightness mag 5.83B2.5IV

Also catalogued as HD 149711 · HIP 81472

10,838 K
temperature
5.83
apparent magnitude
150× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2.5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
627 years
at light speed from Earth
1.88×
as hot as the Sun
150×
the Sun's light output
-0.59
absolute magnitude
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HR 6174B-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.