B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6210

HR 6210 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 529 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,853 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 529 years ago.

529 lybrightness mag 6.05B9II/III

Also catalogued as HD 150608 · HIP 81904

10,853 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
87.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
529 years
at light speed from Earth
1.88×
as hot as the Sun
87.02×
the Sun's light output
0.00
absolute magnitude
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HR 6210B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.