K-type star · orange

Zeta² Sco

Zeta² Sco is an orange in the constellation Scorpius 132 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,962 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 51.10× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 132 years ago.

132 lybrightness mag 3.62K4III

Also catalogued as HR 6271 · HD 152334 · HIP 82729

3,962 K
temperature
3.62
apparent magnitude
51.10× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
132 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
51.10×
the Sun's light output
0.58
absolute magnitude
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Zeta² ScoK-type
Sky regionScorpiusthis direction
StarHR 645422 ly
StarDelta Nor23 ly
StarGamma² Nor23 ly
StarShaulastar
StarSargasstar
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.6To 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.