B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6460

HR 6460 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 738 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,824 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 407× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 738 years ago.

738 lybrightness mag 5.10B7III

Also catalogued as HD 157243 · HIP 85162

10,824 K
temperature
5.10
apparent magnitude
407× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
738 years
at light speed from Earth
1.88×
as hot as the Sun
407×
the Sun's light output
-1.67
absolute magnitude
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HR 6460B-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To 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.