A-type star · white star

HR 6218

HR 6218 is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 707 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,999 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 165× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 707 years ago.

707 lybrightness mag 5.99A3IV

Also catalogued as HD 150894 · HIP 81992

8,999 K
temperature
5.99
apparent magnitude
165× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
707 years
at light speed from Earth
1.56×
as hot as the Sun
165×
the Sun's light output
-0.69
absolute magnitude
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.