B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1186

487 lybrightness mag 6.21B8V

Also catalogued as HD 23958 · HIP 17734

11,607 K

temperature

6.21

apparent magnitude

63.68× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

487 years

at light speed from Earth

2.01×

as hot as the Sun

63.68×

the Sun's light output

0.34

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1186B-type

Sky regionEridanusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1219 →40 ly apart
Chi2For →47 ly apart
HR 970 →61 ly apart
HR 1049 →64 ly apart
HR 1045 →88 ly apart
HD 22333 →96 ly apart

Bright stars in Eridanus

Cursa →mag 2.8
Acamar →mag 2.9
Zaurak →mag 3.0
Rana →mag 3.5
41Ups4Eri →mag 3.5
Phi Eri →mag 3.6
Chi Eri →mag 3.7
16Tau4Eri →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Eridanus

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.