B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1063

HR 1063 is a blue-white star in the constellation Perseus 605 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,590 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 194× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 605 years ago.

605 lybrightness mag 5.47B8IIIp Mn

Also catalogued as HD 21699 · HIP 16470

11,590 K
temperature
5.47
apparent magnitude
194× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IIIp Mn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
605 years
at light speed from Earth
2.01×
as hot as the Sun
194×
the Sun's light output
-0.87
absolute magnitude
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HR 1063B-type
Sky regionPerseusthis direction
StarPsi Per23 ly
StarHR 104734 ly
StarHR 94938 ly
StarMirfakstar
StarZeta Perstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Perseus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook 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.