B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6178

366 lybrightness mag 5.93B9.5V+...

Also catalogued as HD 149886 · HIP 81523

10,584 K

temperature

5.93

apparent magnitude

46.47× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5V+...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

366 years

at light speed from Earth

1.83×

as hot as the Sun

46.47×

the Sun's light output

0.68

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6178B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6122 →15 ly apart
HR 6166 →26 ly apart
HR 6097 →33 ly apart
HR 6382 →44 ly apart
Lam Nor →45 ly apart
HR 6311 →52 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 5.9To 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.