A-type star · white star

HR 6206

HR 6206 is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 475 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,632 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 60.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 475 years ago.

475 lybrightness mag 6.21A4V

Also catalogued as HD 150573 · HIP 81903

8,632 K
temperature
6.21
apparent magnitude
60.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
475 years
at light speed from Earth
1.50×
as hot as the Sun
60.70×
the Sun's light output
0.39
absolute magnitude
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HR 6206A-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.