B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6143

555 lybrightness mag 4.24B2III-IV

Also catalogued as HD 148703 · HIP 80911

12,860 K

temperature

4.24

apparent magnitude

507× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2III-IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

555 years

at light speed from Earth

2.23×

as hot as the Sun

507×

the Sun's light output

-1.91

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6143B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6044 →41 ly apart
HR 6210 →48 ly apart
HR 6211 →62 ly apart
HR 6209 →67 ly apart
HR 6214 →67 ly apart
Xamidimura →73 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 4.2To 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.