A-type star · white star

59 Per

59 Per is a white star in the constellation Perseus 241 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,789 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 241 years ago.

241 lybrightness mag 5.30A1Vn

Also catalogued as HR 1494 · HD 29722 · HIP 21928

9,789 K
temperature
5.30
apparent magnitude
36.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
241 years
at light speed from Earth
1.70×
as hot as the Sun
36.14×
the Sun's light output
0.95
absolute magnitude
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59 PerA-type
Sky regionPerseusthis direction
StarHaedus21 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Perseus

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.