A-type star · white star

HR 6503

HR 6503 is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 383 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,116 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 33.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 383 years ago.

383 lybrightness mag 6.38A1V

Also catalogued as HD 158156 · HIP 85589

9,116 K
temperature
6.38
apparent magnitude
33.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
383 years
at light speed from Earth
1.58×
as hot as the Sun
33.73×
the Sun's light output
1.03
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To 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.