B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6209

545 lybrightness mag 6.14B6/B7V

Also catalogued as HD 150591 · HIP 81914

11,216 K

temperature

6.14

apparent magnitude

85.19× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6/B7V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

545 years

at light speed from Earth

1.94×

as hot as the Sun

85.19×

the Sun's light output

0.02

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6209B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6214 →12 ly apart
HR 6210 →32 ly apart
HD 151965 →46 ly apart
Xamidimura →54 ly apart
HR 6160 →54 ly apart
HR 6143 →67 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 6.1To 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.