B-type star · blue-white star

3 Sco

515 lybrightness mag 5.87B8III/IV

Also catalogued as HR 5912 · HD 142301 · HIP 77909

11,016 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
97.54× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
515 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
97.54×
the Sun's light output
-0.12
absolute magnitude
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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.