B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1440

HR 1440 is a blue-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 441 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,239 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 68.80× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 441 years ago.

441 lybrightness mag 5.91A1V

Also catalogued as HD 28780 · HIP 21452

10,239 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
68.80× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
441 years
at light speed from Earth
1.77×
as hot as the Sun
68.80×
the Sun's light output
0.26
absolute magnitude
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HR 1440B-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
StarHR 130526 ly
StarHR 124826 ly
StarHR 133531 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Camelopardalis

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.