A-type star · white star

Iota² Sco

Iota² Sco is a white star in the constellation Scorpius 2,548 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,733 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6,510× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,548 years ago.

2,548 lybrightness mag 4.78A6Ib

Also catalogued as HR 6631 · HD 161912 · HIP 87294

7,733 K
temperature
4.78
apparent magnitude
6,510× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A6Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,548 years
at light speed from Earth
1.34×
as hot as the Sun
6,510×
the Sun's light output
-4.68
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.