B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1172

HR 1172 is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 386 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,046 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 81.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 386 years ago.

386 lybrightness mag 5.44B8V

Also catalogued as HD 23753 · HIP 17776

11,046 K

temperature

5.44

apparent magnitude

81.36× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

386 years

at light speed from Earth

1.91×

as hot as the Sun

81.36×

the Sun's light output

0.07

absolute magnitude

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HR 1172B-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Taurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook 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.