B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1469

HR 1469 is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 852 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,692 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 442× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 852 years ago.

852 lybrightness mag 5.32B7V

Also catalogued as HD 29335 · HIP 21515

11,692 K
temperature
5.32
apparent magnitude
442× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
852 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
442×
the Sun's light output
-1.76
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.