B-type star · blue-white star
HR 1204
HR 1204 is a blue-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 361 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,153 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 112× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 361 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 24479 · HIP 18505
11,153 K
temperature
4.95
apparent magnitude
112× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
361 years
at light speed from Earth
1.93×
as hot as the Sun
112×
the Sun's light output
-0.27
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.