B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6420

364 lybrightness mag 5.76B9V

Also catalogued as HD 156293 · HIP 84690

10,781 K

temperature

5.76

apparent magnitude

53.75× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

364 years

at light speed from Earth

1.87×

as hot as the Sun

53.75×

the Sun's light output

0.52

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6420B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

1Sig Ara →29 ly apart
HR 6382 →36 ly apart
HR 6300 →37 ly apart
HR 6503 →43 ly apart
HR 6456 →45 ly apart
HR 6331 →45 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 5.8To 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.