A-type star · white star

HR 6422

1,042 lybrightness mag 6.36B5III

Also catalogued as HD 156325 · HIP 84650

8,942 K

temperature

6.36

apparent magnitude

254× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,042 years

at light speed from Earth

1.55×

as hot as the Sun

254×

the Sun's light output

-1.16

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6422A-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

27 Sco →120 ly apart
HR 6354 →120 ly apart
HR 6662 →140 ly apart
3 Sgr →150 ly apart
HR 6244 →160 ly apart
HR 6671 →160 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 6.4To 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.