B-type star · blue-white star
HR 1185
HR 1185 is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 368 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,201 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 368 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 23950 · HIP 17921
10,201 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
42.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
368 years
at light speed from Earth
1.77×
as hot as the Sun
42.19×
the Sun's light output
0.79
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.