B-type star · blue-white star
HR 61
HR 61 is a blue-white star in the constellation Cetus 596 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,709 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 73.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 596 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 1256 · HIP 1331
11,709 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
73.11× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
596 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
73.11×
the Sun's light output
0.19
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.