F-type star · yellow-white star

Sargas

300 lybrightness mag 1.86F1II

Also catalogued as The Sco · HR 6553 · HD 159532 · HIP 86228

6,848 K

temperature

1.86

apparent magnitude

1,332× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F1II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

300 years

at light speed from Earth

1.19×

as hot as the Sun

1,332×

the Sun's light output

-2.96

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

SargasF-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6675 →22 ly apart
HR 6371 →31 ly apart
HR 6818 →37 ly apart
HR 6331 →40 ly apart
HR 6786 →44 ly apart
Alp Ara →48 ly apart

Bright stars in Scorpius

Shaula →mag 1.6
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
Fang →mag 2.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 1.9To 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.