A-type star · white star

HR 6523

HR 6523 is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 1,517 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,641 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 869× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,517 years ago.

1,517 lybrightness mag 5.84B9Ib/II

Also catalogued as HD 158799 · HIP 85889

9,641 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
869× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9Ib/II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,517 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
869×
the Sun's light output
-2.50
absolute magnitude
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HR 6523A-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
StarHR 6513140 ly
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.