A-type star · white star

HR 733

HR 733 is a white star in the constellation Fornax 328 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,500 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 328 years ago.

328 lybrightness mag 6.50DAn...

Also catalogued as HD 15634 · HIP 11644

7,500 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
22.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
DAn...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
328 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
22.14×
the Sun's light output
1.49
absolute magnitude
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HR 733A-type
Sky regionFornaxthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Fornax

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.