A-type star · white star

HR 1137

HR 1137 is a white star in the constellation Taurus 253 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,789 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 253 years ago.

253 lybrightness mag 6.09A0V

Also catalogued as HD 23258 · HIP 17453

9,789 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
19.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
253 years
at light speed from Earth
1.70×
as hot as the Sun
19.27×
the Sun's light output
1.64
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Taurus

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.