A-type star · white star
HR 961
HR 961 is a white star in the constellation Cepheus 265 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,079 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 265 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 19978 · HIP 15547
8,079 K
temperature
5.44
apparent magnitude
38.26× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
265 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
38.26×
the Sun's light output
0.89
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.