B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1207

HR 1207 is a blue-white star in the constellation Perseus 730 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,138 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 304× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 730 years ago.

730 lybrightness mag 5.39B6V

Also catalogued as HD 24504 · HIP 18396

11,138 K

temperature

5.39

apparent magnitude

304× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

730 years

at light speed from Earth

1.93×

as hot as the Sun

304×

the Sun's light output

-1.36

absolute magnitude

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HR 1207B-type

Sky regionPerseusthis direction

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Bright stars in Perseus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Perseus

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.