A-type star · white star
HR 597
HR 597 is a white star in the constellation Cepheus 230 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,857 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.49× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 230 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 12467 · HIP 10054
8,857 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
16.49× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
230 years
at light speed from Earth
1.53×
as hot as the Sun
16.49×
the Sun's light output
1.81
absolute magnitude
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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.