B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6174

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6174B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6160 →53 ly apart
HD 151965 →55 ly apart
HR 6209 →86 ly apart
HR 6274 →89 ly apart
HR 6214 →98 ly apart
HR 6477 →99 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 5.8To 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.