A-type star · white star

HR 6244

1,113 lybrightness mag 6.10B8II/III

Also catalogued as HD 151771 · HIP 82453

8,802 K

temperature

6.10

apparent magnitude

368× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8II/III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,113 years

at light speed from Earth

1.52×

as hot as the Sun

368×

the Sun's light output

-1.57

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6244A-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6422 →160 ly apart
27 Sco →180 ly apart
HR 6354 →220 ly apart
HR 6085 →230 ly apart
HR 6558 →230 ly apart
HR 6374 →230 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.