B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1423

HR 1423 is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus 1,517 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,633 K, about 2.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,074× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,517 years ago.

1,517 lybrightness mag 5.61B2V:ne

Also catalogued as HD 28497 · HIP 20922

13,633 K

temperature

5.61

apparent magnitude

1,074× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2V:ne

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,517 years

at light speed from Earth

2.36×

as hot as the Sun

1,074×

the Sun's light output

-2.73

absolute magnitude

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HR 1423B-type

Sky regionEridanusthis direction

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Bright stars in Eridanus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To see it no equipment neededLook toward Eridanus

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.