A-type star · white star

HR 1403

HR 1403 is a white star in the constellation Taurus 154 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,658 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 154 years ago.

154 lybrightness mag 5.72Am

Also catalogued as HD 28226 · HIP 20842

7,658 K
temperature
5.72
apparent magnitude
9.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Am
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
154 years
at light speed from Earth
1.33×
as hot as the Sun
9.96×
the Sun's light output
2.35
absolute magnitude
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HR 1403A-type
Sky regionTaurusthis direction
StarKappa¹ Tau2.5 ly
StarUpsilon Tau3.4 ly
StarKappa² Tau6.1 ly
StarElnathstar
StarAlcyonestar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Taurus
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.