B-type star · blue-white star
HR 1214
HR 1214 is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus 346 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,159 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 88.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 346 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 24626 · HIP 18213
12,159 K
temperature
5.11
apparent magnitude
88.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6/B7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
346 years
at light speed from Earth
2.11×
as hot as the Sun
88.72×
the Sun's light output
-0.02
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.