A-type star · white star

HR 6298

315 lybrightness mag 6.05A3III

Also catalogued as HD 153072 · HIP 83100

8,329 K

temperature

6.05

apparent magnitude

30.96× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

315 years

at light speed from Earth

1.44×

as hot as the Sun

30.96×

the Sun's light output

1.12

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6298A-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6311 →11 ly apart
HD 150420 →19 ly apart
HR 6221 →32 ly apart
HR 6166 →40 ly apart
HR 6371 →40 ly apart
HR 6192 →44 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 6.0To 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.