A-type star · white star
Beta Hor
Beta Hor is a white star in the constellation Horologium 295 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,784 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 72.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 295 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 909 · HD 18866 · HIP 13884
8,784 K
temperature
4.98
apparent magnitude
72.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
295 years
at light speed from Earth
1.52×
as hot as the Sun
72.38×
the Sun's light output
0.20
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.