B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6628

HR 6628 is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 557 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,488 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 308× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 557 years ago.

557 lybrightness mag 4.79B8Ib/II

Also catalogued as HD 161840 · HIP 87220

10,488 K
temperature
4.79
apparent magnitude
308× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8Ib/II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
557 years
at light speed from Earth
1.82×
as hot as the Sun
308×
the Sun's light output
-1.37
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To 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.