F-type star · yellow-white star

Alniyat

697 lybrightness mag 2.90B1III

Also catalogued as 20Sig Sco · HR 6084 · HD 147165 · HIP 80112

7,468 K

temperature

2.90

apparent magnitude

2,752× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

697 years

at light speed from Earth

1.29×

as hot as the Sun

2,752×

the Sun's light output

-3.75

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

AlniyatF-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

25 Sco →71 ly apart
HR 6218 →75 ly apart
HR 5956 →94 ly apart
HD 146436 →100 ly apart
HR 6273 →110 ly apart
HR 5809 →120 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 2.9To 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.