B-type star · blue-white star

Kap Sco

483 lybrightness mag 2.39B1.5III

Also catalogued as HR 6580 · HD 160578 · HIP 86670

12,924 K

temperature

2.39

apparent magnitude

2,114× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1.5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

483 years

at light speed from Earth

2.24×

as hot as the Sun

2,114×

the Sun's light output

-3.46

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Kap ScoB-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6613 →11 ly apart
HR 6678 →27 ly apart
HR 6682 →45 ly apart
HR 6344 →64 ly apart
HR 6862 →65 ly apart
HR 6683 →74 ly apart

Bright stars in Scorpius

Shaula →mag 1.6
Sargas →mag 1.9
Dschubba →mag 2.3
Larawag →mag 2.3
Acrab →mag 2.6
Lesath →mag 2.7
Paikauhale →mag 2.8
Fang →mag 2.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.4To 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.