A-type star · white star

HR 1170

HR 1170 is a white star in the constellation Perseus 242 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,598 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 242 years ago.

242 lybrightness mag 5.95A9IV

Also catalogued as HD 23728 · HIP 17846

7,598 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
19.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A9IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
242 years
at light speed from Earth
1.32×
as hot as the Sun
19.99×
the Sun's light output
1.60
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.