A-type star · white star

HR 6042

469 lybrightness mag 6.40B6IV

Also catalogued as HD 145792 · HIP 79530

9,619 K

temperature

6.40

apparent magnitude

49.52× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

469 years

at light speed from Earth

1.67×

as hot as the Sun

49.52×

the Sun's light output

0.61

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6042A-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6054 →19 ly apart
HR 6001 →22 ly apart
HR 6003 →27 ly apart
13 Sco →31 ly apart
9Ome1Sco →34 ly apart
HR 6076 →36 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 6.4To 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.