B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6460

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6460B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6257 →76 ly apart
HR 6572 →84 ly apart
HR 6477 →100 ly apart
HR 6583 →110 ly apart
HR 6501 →120 ly apart
HR 6640 →130 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 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.