B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1424

HR 1424 is a blue-white star in the constellation Perseus 1,204 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,014 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 375× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,204 years ago.

1,204 lybrightness mag 6.25B8V

Also catalogued as HD 28503 · HIP 21108

10,014 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
375× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,204 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
375×
the Sun's light output
-1.58
absolute magnitude
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HR 1424B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To 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.