B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6178

HR 6178 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 366 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,584 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 366 years ago.

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
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HR 6178B-type
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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.