B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1072

HR 1072 is a blue-white star in the constellation Perseus 1,208 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,213 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 323× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,208 years ago.

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
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HR 1072B-type
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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.