A-type star · white star

HR 1427

HR 1427 is a white star in the constellation Taurus 141 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,403 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 141 years ago.

141 lybrightness mag 4.78A6IV

Also catalogued as HD 28527 · HIP 21029 · Gliese Gl 170.1

8,403 K

temperature

4.78

apparent magnitude

19.90× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A6IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

141 years

at light speed from Earth

1.46×

as hot as the Sun

19.90×

the Sun's light output

1.60

absolute magnitude

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HR 1427A-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Taurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To 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.