A-type star · white star
HR 1402
HR 1402 is a white star in the constellation Taurus 588 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,552 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 127× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 588 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 28217 · HIP 20804
9,552 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
127× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
588 years
at light speed from Earth
1.65×
as hot as the Sun
127×
the Sun's light output
-0.41
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.