A-type star · white star
HR 6298
HR 6298 is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 315 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,329 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 315 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 153072 · HIP 83100
8,329 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
30.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
315 years
at light speed from Earth
1.44×
as hot as the Sun
30.96×
the Sun's light output
1.12
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.