A-type star · white star
HR 732
HR 732 is a white star in the constellation Cetus 281 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,419 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 25.82× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 281 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 15633 · HIP 11687
8,419 K
temperature
6.00
apparent magnitude
25.82× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7III-IVs
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
281 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
25.82×
the Sun's light output
1.32
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.