B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6558

HR 6558 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 988 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,897 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 293× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 988 years ago.

988 lybrightness mag 6.09B8V

Also catalogued as HD 159707 · HIP 86311

10,897 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
293× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
988 years
at light speed from Earth
1.89×
as hot as the Sun
293×
the Sun's light output
-1.32
absolute magnitude
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HR 6558B-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To 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.