B-type star · blue-white star
Iklil
Iklil is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 472 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,561 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 517× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 472 years ago.
Also catalogued as Rho Sco · HR 5928 · HD 142669 · HIP 78104
13,561 K
temperature
3.87
apparent magnitude
517× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IV/V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
472 years
at light speed from Earth
2.35×
as hot as the Sun
517×
the Sun's light output
-1.93
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.