B-type star · blue-white star

Acrab

404 lybrightness mag 2.56B0.5V

Also catalogued as 8Bet1Sco · HR 5984 · HD 144217 · HIP 78820

11,016 K

temperature

2.56

apparent magnitude

1,266× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B0.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

404 years

at light speed from Earth

1.91×

as hot as the Sun

1,266×

the Sun's light output

-2.91

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

AcrabB-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

Acrab B →5.9 ly apart
HR 5998 →36 ly apart
HR 5906 →42 ly apart
HR 5907 →42 ly apart
4 Sco →49 ly apart
HR 6003 →49 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
Lesath →mag 2.7
Paikauhale →mag 2.8
Fang →mag 2.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.6To 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.