B-type star · blue-white star
HR 6214
HR 6214 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 534 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,456 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 129× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 534 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 150742 · HIP 81972
11,456 K
temperature
5.64
apparent magnitude
129× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
534 years
at light speed from Earth
1.98×
as hot as the Sun
129×
the Sun's light output
-0.43
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.