A-type star · white star

HR 895

HR 895 is a white star in the constellation Eridanus 294 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,004 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 294 years ago.

294 lybrightness mag 6.14A2m

Also catalogued as HD 18557 · HIP 13883

8,004 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
24.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
294 years
at light speed from Earth
1.39×
as hot as the Sun
24.73×
the Sun's light output
1.37
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Eridanus

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.