Star · star

Xi Sco

79.4 lybrightness mag 5.00F6 IV-V

Also catalogued as HR 5977 · HD 144069 · Gliese GJ 9540B

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temperature

5.00

apparent magnitude

5.16× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F6 IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

79 years

at light speed from Earth

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as hot as the Sun

5.16×

the Sun's light output

3.07

absolute magnitude

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Xi Scostar

Sky regionScorpiusthis direction

StarGraffias0.00047 ly

Nearest stars

Graffias →0.00047 ly apart
HR 5996 →9.9 ly apart
HR 5816 →12 ly apart
37 Lib →19 ly apart
50Sig Ser →22 ly apart
37Eps Ser →23 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 5.0To 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.