B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1018

HR 1018 is a blue-white star in the constellation Fornax 373 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,002 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.57× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 373 years ago.

373 lybrightness mag 6.36A1V

Also catalogued as HD 20980 · HIP 15700

10,002 K

temperature

6.36

apparent magnitude

32.57× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

373 years

at light speed from Earth

1.73×

as hot as the Sun

32.57×

the Sun's light output

1.07

absolute magnitude

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HR 1018B-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.4To 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.