B-type star · blue-white star

Acrab B

398 lybrightness mag 4.90B2V

Also catalogued as 8Bet2Sco · HR 5985 · HD 144218 · HIP 78821

10,435 K

temperature

4.90

apparent magnitude

142× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

398 years

at light speed from Earth

1.81×

as hot as the Sun

142×

the Sun's light output

-0.53

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Acrab BB-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

Acrab →5.9 ly apart
HR 5998 →33 ly apart
HR 5906 →45 ly apart
HR 5907 →46 ly apart
HR 6051 →47 ly apart
4 Sco →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
Acrab →mag 2.6
Lesath →mag 2.7
Paikauhale →mag 2.8

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.9To 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.