A-type star · white star

HR 1224

HR 1224 is a white star in the constellation Taurus 229 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,455 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 229 years ago.

229 lybrightness mag 6.09A2Vn

Also catalogued as HD 24817 · HIP 18481

9,455 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
15.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
229 years
at light speed from Earth
1.64×
as hot as the Sun
15.73×
the Sun's light output
1.86
absolute magnitude
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HR 1224A-type
Sky regionTaurusthis direction
StarHD 2629230 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Taurus

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.