A-type star · white star

Iot2Sco

2,548 lybrightness mag 4.78A6Ib

Also catalogued as HR 6631 · HD 161912 · HIP 87294

7,733 K

temperature

4.78

apparent magnitude

6,510× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A6Ib

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,548 years

at light speed from Earth

1.34×

as hot as the Sun

6,510×

the Sun's light output

-4.68

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Iot2ScoA-type

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6557 →370 ly apart
HR 6283 →470 ly apart
Zet1Sco →480 ly apart
HR 6260 →480 ly apart
HD 152424 →500 ly apart
HR 6272 →520 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.