B-type star · blue-white star

HR 983

HR 983 is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus 658 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,355 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 121× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 658 years ago.

658 lybrightness mag 6.17B9V

Also catalogued as HD 20319 · HIP 15203

10,355 K
temperature
6.17
apparent magnitude
121× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
658 years
at light speed from Earth
1.79×
as hot as the Sun
121×
the Sun's light output
-0.35
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To 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.