B-type star · blue-white star
HR 1476
HR 1476 is a blue-white star in the constellation Eridanus 415 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,489 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.49× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 415 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 29435 · HIP 21486
11,489 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
43.49× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
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spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
415 years
at light speed from Earth
1.99×
as hot as the Sun
43.49×
the Sun's light output
0.75
absolute magnitude
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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.