A-type star · white star

HR 971

HR 971 is a white star in the constellation Aries 521 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,978 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 127× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 521 years ago.

521 lybrightness mag 5.61A1Vs

Also catalogued as HD 20149 · HIP 15154

9,978 K
temperature
5.61
apparent magnitude
127× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1Vs
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
521 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
127×
the Sun's light output
-0.41
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Aries

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.