B-type star · blue-white star

HR 890

HR 890 is a blue-white star in the constellation Perseus 459 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,781 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 138× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 459 years ago.

459 lybrightness mag 5.24B7V

Also catalogued as HD 18537 · HIP 14043

10,781 K
temperature
5.24
apparent magnitude
138× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
459 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
138×
the Sun's light output
-0.50
absolute magnitude
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HR 890B-type
Sky regionPerseusthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Perseus

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.