A-type star · white star
HR 1438
HR 1438 is a white star in the constellation Eridanus 368 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,165 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.09× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 368 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 28763 · HIP 21110
9,165 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
35.09× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2/A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
368 years
at light speed from Earth
1.59×
as hot as the Sun
35.09×
the Sun's light output
0.99
absolute magnitude
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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.