B-type star · blue-white star

HR 970

HR 970 is a blue-white star in the constellation Fornax 470 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,184 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.11× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 470 years ago.

470 lybrightness mag 6.29B9IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 20144 · HIP 14972

11,184 K

temperature

6.29

apparent magnitude

55.11× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

470 years

at light speed from Earth

1.94×

as hot as the Sun

55.11×

the Sun's light output

0.50

absolute magnitude

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HR 970B-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

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Bright stars in Fornax

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Brightness mag 6.3To 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.