A-type star · white star

HR 6218

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6218A-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

25 Sco →37 ly apart
HR 6273 →44 ly apart
Alniyat →75 ly apart
HR 6211 →110 ly apart
HR 6282 →120 ly apart
HR 6494 →120 ly apart

Bright stars in Scorpius

Shaula →mag 1.6
Sargas →mag 1.9
Dschubba →mag 2.3
Larawag →mag 2.3
Kap Sco →mag 2.4
Acrab →mag 2.6
Lesath →mag 2.7
Paikauhale →mag 2.8

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.