B-type star · blue-white star

HR 5998

390 lybrightness mag 6.32B8IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 144661 · HIP 79031

10,625 K

temperature

6.32

apparent magnitude

36.85× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

390 years

at light speed from Earth

1.84×

as hot as the Sun

36.85×

the Sun's light output

0.93

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 5998B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

4 Sco →30 ly apart
Acrab B →33 ly apart
Acrab →36 ly apart
HR 5906 →38 ly apart
5Rho Oph →39 ly apart
HR 6051 →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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.