B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1189

HR 1189 is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus 165 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,625 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 165 years ago.

165 lybrightness mag 4.30A+...

Also catalogued as HD 24071 · HIP 17797

10,625 K
temperature
4.30
apparent magnitude
42.74× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
165 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
42.74×
the Sun's light output
0.77
absolute magnitude
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HR 1189B-type
Sky regionEridanusthis direction
StarHR 114319 ly
StarDelta Hor23 ly
StarIntan24 ly
StarCursastar
StarZaurakstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Eridanus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.3To see it no equipment neededLook 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.