B-type star · blue-white star
Pipirima
Pipirima is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 474 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,831 K, about 2.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 693× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 474 years ago.
Also catalogued as Mu² Sco · HR 6252 · HD 151985 · HIP 82545
13,831 K
temperature
3.56
apparent magnitude
693× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
474 years
at light speed from Earth
2.40×
as hot as the Sun
693×
the Sun's light output
-2.25
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.