B-type star · blue-white star

HR 61

596 lybrightness mag 6.50B6III/IV

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 61B-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 37 →37 ly apart
HR 10 →43 ly apart
HR 102 →64 ly apart
1 Cet →71 ly apart
HR 9096 →88 ly apart
HR 247 →100 ly apart

Bright stars in Cetus

Diphda →mag 2.0
Menkar →mag 2.5
31Eta Cet →mag 3.5
Kaffaljidhma →mag 3.5
52Tau Cet →mag 3.5
8Iot Cet →mag 3.6
45The Cet →mag 3.6
Baten Kaitos →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cetus

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.