A-type star · white star

HR 1448

HR 1448 is a white star in the constellation Taurus 485 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,487 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 104× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 485 years ago.

485 lybrightness mag 5.67A2Vs

Also catalogued as HD 28978 · HIP 21295

9,487 K
temperature
5.67
apparent magnitude
104× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2Vs
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
485 years
at light speed from Earth
1.64×
as hot as the Sun
104×
the Sun's light output
-0.19
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.