A-type star · white star

12 Sco

303 lybrightness mag 5.67B9V

Also catalogued as HR 6029 · HD 145483 · HIP 79399

9,978 K

temperature

5.67

apparent magnitude

40.66× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

303 years

at light speed from Earth

1.73×

as hot as the Sun

40.66×

the Sun's light output

0.83

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

12 ScoA-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6017 →16 ly apart
10Ome2Sco →42 ly apart
HR 6193 →43 ly apart
HR 6192 →45 ly apart
36 Lib →47 ly apart
45Lam Lib →50 ly apart

Bright stars in Scorpius

Shaula →mag 1.6
Sargas →mag 1.9
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

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To 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.