B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6647

843 lybrightness mag 5.88B6Ib

Also catalogued as HD 162374 · HIP 87460

11,761 K

temperature

5.88

apparent magnitude

258× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6Ib

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

843 years

at light speed from Earth

2.04×

as hot as the Sun

258×

the Sun's light output

-1.18

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6647B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6663 →12 ly apart
HR 6658 →20 ly apart
HR 6657 →44 ly apart
HR 6648 →51 ly apart
HD 160371 →74 ly apart
HR 6501 →85 ly apart

Bright stars in Scorpius

Shaula →mag 1.6
Sargas →mag 1.9
Dschubba →mag 2.3
Larawag →mag 2.3
Kap Sco →mag 2.4
Acrab →mag 2.6
Lesath →mag 2.7
Paikauhale →mag 2.8

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To 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.