A-type star · white star

HR 6338

HR 6338 is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 227 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,585 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 227 years ago.

227 lybrightness mag 6.18A4III

Also catalogued as HD 154153 · HIP 83650

7,585 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
14.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
227 years
at light speed from Earth
1.31×
as hot as the Sun
14.27×
the Sun's light output
1.96
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To 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.