A-type star · white star

HD 155985

brightness mag 6.46B0.5Iab:

Also catalogued as HIP 84556

8,265 K

temperature

6.46

apparent magnitude

22,698,649× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B0.5Iab:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

–

at light speed from Earth

1.43×

as hot as the Sun

22,698,649×

the Sun's light output

-13.54

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HD 155985A-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6392 →29,000 ly apart
HR 6263 →29,000 ly apart
HR 6249 →31,000 ly apart
HR 6245 →33,000 ly apart
HR 6450 →40,000 ly apart
HR 6187 →42,000 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.5To 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.