B-type star · blue-white star
HR 1471
HR 1471 is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 330 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,369 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 40.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 330 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 29365 · HIP 21604
10,369 K
temperature
5.85
apparent magnitude
40.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
330 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
40.70×
the Sun's light output
0.83
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.