B-type star · blue-white star
HR 1441
HR 1441 is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus 475 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,867 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 91.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 475 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 28843 · HIP 21192
11,867 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
91.88× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
475 years
at light speed from Earth
2.06×
as hot as the Sun
91.88×
the Sun's light output
-0.06
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.