B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6558

988 lybrightness mag 6.09B8V

Also catalogued as HD 159707 · HIP 86311

10,897 K

temperature

6.09

apparent magnitude

293× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

988 years

at light speed from Earth

1.89×

as hot as the Sun

293×

the Sun's light output

-1.32

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6558B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

Iot Ara →100 ly apart
HR 6671 →120 ly apart
HR 6759 →140 ly apart
HR 6640 →160 ly apart
HR 6662 →160 ly apart
HR 6657 →170 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 6.1To 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.