A-type star · white star

HR 1014

HR 1014 is a white star in the constellation Reticulum 179 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,721 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 179 years ago.

179 lybrightness mag 6.03A3V

Also catalogued as HD 20888 · HIP 15353

8,721 K
temperature
6.03
apparent magnitude
10.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
179 years
at light speed from Earth
1.51×
as hot as the Sun
10.19×
the Sun's light output
2.33
absolute magnitude
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HR 1014A-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Reticulum

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.