B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6397

brightness mag 5.60O9

Also catalogued as HD 155806 · HIP 84401

10,882 K

temperature

5.60

apparent magnitude

50,118,723× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

–

at light speed from Earth

1.89×

as hot as the Sun

50,118,723×

the Sun's light output

-14.40

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6397B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6334 →13,000 ly apart
HR 6535 →24,000 ly apart
HR 6450 →26,000 ly apart
HD 153919 →28,000 ly apart
HR 6392 →35,000 ly apart
HR 6660 →46,000 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 5.6To 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.