B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1397

646 lybrightness mag 6.06B6IV

Also catalogued as HD 28114 · HIP 20715

10,252 K

temperature

6.06

apparent magnitude

129× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

646 years

at light speed from Earth

1.78×

as hot as the Sun

129×

the Sun's light output

-0.42

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1397B-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 27860 →47 ly apart
HR 1349 →50 ly apart
HR 1402 →65 ly apart
40 Tau →72 ly apart
HR 1553 →79 ly apart
HD 28086 →82 ly apart

Bright stars in Taurus

Elnath →mag 1.6
Alcyone →mag 2.9
Tianguan →mag 3.0
Chamukuy →mag 3.4
35Lam Tau →mag 3.4
Ain →mag 3.5
1Omi Tau →mag 3.6
Atlas →mag 3.6

Can you see it tonight?

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.