A-type star · white star

HR 1297

HR 1297 is a white star in the constellation Taurus 872 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,394 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 218× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 872 years ago.

872 lybrightness mag 6.14B9IIIsp...

Also catalogued as HD 26571 · HIP 19672

8,394 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
218× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IIIsp...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
872 years
at light speed from Earth
1.45×
as hot as the Sun
218×
the Sun's light output
-1.00
absolute magnitude
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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.