B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1419

HR 1419 is a blue-white star in the constellation Perseus 375 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,462 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 38.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 375 years ago.

375 lybrightness mag 6.18B9.5Vn

Also catalogued as HD 28459 · HIP 21038

10,462 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
38.90× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
375 years
at light speed from Earth
1.81×
as hot as the Sun
38.90×
the Sun's light output
0.88
absolute magnitude
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HR 1419B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Perseus

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.