B-type star · blue-white star
Lesath
Lesath is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 576 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,099 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,262× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 576 years ago.
Also catalogued as Upsilon Sco · HR 6508 · HD 158408 · HIP 85696
13,099 K
temperature
2.70
apparent magnitude
2,262× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
576 years
at light speed from Earth
2.27×
as hot as the Sun
2,262×
the Sun's light output
-3.54
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.