B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1029

HR 1029 is a blue-white star in the constellation Perseus 520 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,138 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 81.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 520 years ago.

520 lybrightness mag 6.09B7V

Also catalogued as HD 21071 · HIP 15988

11,138 K

temperature

6.09

apparent magnitude

81.21× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

520 years

at light speed from Earth

1.93×

as hot as the Sun

81.21×

the Sun's light output

0.08

absolute magnitude

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HR 1029B-type

Sky regionPerseusthis direction

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Bright stars in Perseus

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Brightness mag 6.1To 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.