B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6051

355 lybrightness mag 6.41B9V

Also catalogued as HD 145964 · HIP 79599

10,100 K

temperature

6.41

apparent magnitude

28.08× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

355 years

at light speed from Earth

1.75×

as hot as the Sun

28.08×

the Sun's light output

1.23

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6051B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

5Rho Oph →23 ly apart
HR 5998 →43 ly apart
Acrab B →47 ly apart
Acrab →52 ly apart
45Lam Lib →54 ly apart
11 Sco →55 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.