B-type star · blue-white star

HR 979

645 lybrightness mag 6.44B9p

Also catalogued as HD 20283 · HIP 15282

10,475 K

temperature

6.44

apparent magnitude

90.28× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9p

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

645 years

at light speed from Earth

1.81×

as hot as the Sun

90.28×

the Sun's light output

-0.04

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 979B-type

Sky regionPerseusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 950 →26 ly apart
HR 886 →38 ly apart
HR 894 →48 ly apart
HR 1097 →66 ly apart
HR 876 →72 ly apart
HR 1047 →77 ly apart

Bright stars in Perseus

Mirfak →mag 1.8
44Zet Per →mag 2.8
45Eps Per →mag 2.9
23Gam Per →mag 2.9
39Del Per →mag 3.0
25Rho Per →mag 3.3
Miram →mag 3.8
41Nu Per →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.