A-type star · white star

HR 1246

HR 1246 is a white star in the constellation Eridanus 351 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,697 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.93× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 351 years ago.

351 lybrightness mag 5.93A1V

Also catalogued as HD 25371 · HIP 18723

9,697 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
42.93× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
351 years
at light speed from Earth
1.68×
as hot as the Sun
42.93×
the Sun's light output
0.77
absolute magnitude
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Sky regionEridanusthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.