B-type star · blue-white star

Iklil

472 lybrightness mag 3.87B2IV/V

Also catalogued as 5Rho 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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

IklilB-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5916 →22 ly apart
13 Sco →31 ly apart
HR 6001 →32 ly apart
HR 5965 →35 ly apart
1 Sco →39 ly apart
2 Sco →45 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 3.9To 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.