B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1445

HR 1445 is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 485 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,766 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 85.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 485 years ago.

485 lybrightness mag 5.88B9p...

Also catalogued as HD 28929 · HIP 21323

10,766 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
85.74× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9p...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
485 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
85.74×
the Sun's light output
0.02
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.