B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5988

526 lybrightness mag 5.90B8V

Also catalogued as HD 144334 · HIP 78877

11,107 K

temperature

5.90

apparent magnitude

98.90× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

526 years

at light speed from Earth

1.92×

as hot as the Sun

98.90×

the Sun's light output

-0.14

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5988B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5973 →12 ly apart
3 Sco →30 ly apart
HR 5942 →36 ly apart
Dschubba →38 ly apart
2 Sco →38 ly apart
HR 5910 →43 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 5.9To 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.