B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6539

HR 6539 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 337 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,051 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.83× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 337 years ago.

337 lybrightness mag 6.48A0V

Also catalogued as HD 159312 · HIP 86098

10,051 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
23.83× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
337 years
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
23.83×
the Sun's light output
1.41
absolute magnitude
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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.