B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1072

1,208 lybrightness mag 6.42B2IV

Also catalogued as HD 21803 · HIP 16516

10,213 K

temperature

6.42

apparent magnitude

323× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,208 years

at light speed from Earth

1.77×

as hot as the Sun

323×

the Sun's light output

-1.42

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1072B-type

Sky regionPerseusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 973 →150 ly apart
HR 1127 →210 ly apart
HR 865 →210 ly apart
HR 792 →220 ly apart
Menkib →220 ly apart
HR 991 →230 ly apart

Bright stars in Perseus

Mirfak →mag 1.8
44Zet Per →mag 2.8
45Eps Per →mag 2.9
23Gam Per →mag 2.9
39Del Per →mag 3.0
25Rho Per →mag 3.3
Miram →mag 3.8
41Nu Per →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To 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.