B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1271

HR 1271 is a blue-white star in the constellation Octans 499 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,188 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 56.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 499 years ago.

499 lybrightness mag 6.40B9V

Also catalogued as HD 25887 · HIP 17328

10,188 K

temperature

6.40

apparent magnitude

56.08× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

499 years

at light speed from Earth

1.77×

as hot as the Sun

56.08×

the Sun's light output

0.48

absolute magnitude

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HR 1271B-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

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Bright stars in Octans

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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Octans

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.