A-type star · white star

HR 1307

HR 1307 is a white star in the constellation Taurus 431 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,871 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 48.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 431 years ago.

431 lybrightness mag 6.24B8Vn

Also catalogued as HD 26676 · HIP 19720

9,871 K
temperature
6.24
apparent magnitude
48.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
431 years
at light speed from Earth
1.71×
as hot as the Sun
48.62×
the Sun's light output
0.63
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To 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.