A-type star · white star
HR 701
HR 701 is a white star in the constellation Eridanus 199 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,064 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 199 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 14943 · HIP 11102
8,064 K
temperature
5.90
apparent magnitude
14.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
199 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
14.09×
the Sun's light output
1.98
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.