B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6209
HR 6209 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 545 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,216 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 85.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 545 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 150591 · HIP 81914
11,216 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
85.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6/B7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
545 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
85.19×
the Sun's light output
0.02
absolute magnitude
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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.