B-type star · blue-white star

HR 6233

HR 6233 is a blue-white star in the constellation Triangulum Australe 1,013 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,488 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 300× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,013 years ago.

1,013 lybrightness mag 6.12B8II/III

Also catalogued as HD 151441 · HIP 82517

10,488 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
300× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,013 years
at light speed from Earth
1.82×
as hot as the Sun
300×
the Sun's light output
-1.34
absolute magnitude
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HR 6233B-type
Sky regionTriangulum Australethis direction
StarHD 152010100 ly
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Bright stars in Triangulum Australe
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Triangulum Australe

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.