B-type star · blue-white star
HR 1097
HR 1097 is a blue-white star in the constellation Perseus 687 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,001 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 105× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 687 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 22402 · HIP 16938
11,001 K
temperature
6.41
apparent magnitude
105× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
687 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
105×
the Sun's light output
-0.21
absolute magnitude
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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.