A-type star · white star

HR 6503

383 lybrightness mag 6.38A1V

Also catalogued as HD 158156 · HIP 85589

9,116 K

temperature

6.38

apparent magnitude

33.73× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

383 years

at light speed from Earth

1.58×

as hot as the Sun

33.73×

the Sun's light output

1.03

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6503A-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6456 →19 ly apart
HR 6382 →25 ly apart
HR 6522 →31 ly apart
HR 6517 →36 ly apart
HR 6420 →43 ly apart
HR 6691 →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 6.4To 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.