B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6007

408 lybrightness mag 5.50B8V

Also catalogued as HD 144987 · HIP 79199

11,169 K

temperature

5.50

apparent magnitude

85.90× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

408 years

at light speed from Earth

1.94×

as hot as the Sun

85.90×

the Sun's light output

0.01

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6007B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6006 →16 ly apart
The Lup →25 ly apart
HR 5967 →38 ly apart
HR 6100 →38 ly apart
HR 5860 →41 ly apart
HR 5935 →46 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 5.5To 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.