B-type star · blue-white star
Xamidimura
Xamidimura is a blue-white star in the constellation Scorpius 501 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,585 K, about 2.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,297× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 501 years ago.
Also catalogued as Mu¹ Sco · HR 6247 · HD 151890 · HIP 82514
13,585 K
temperature
3.00
apparent magnitude
1,297× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1.5IV + B
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
501 years
at light speed from Earth
2.35×
as hot as the Sun
1,297×
the Sun's light output
-2.93
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.