B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6628

557 lybrightness mag 4.79B8Ib/II

Also catalogued as HD 161840 · HIP 87220

10,488 K

temperature

4.79

apparent magnitude

308× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8Ib/II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

557 years

at light speed from Earth

1.82×

as hot as the Sun

308×

the Sun's light output

-1.37

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 6628B-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6470 →57 ly apart
Shaula →63 ly apart
HR 6835 →67 ly apart
HR 6651 →69 ly apart
Lesath →70 ly apart
HR 6864 →77 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 4.8To 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.