A-type star · white star

HR 1477

HR 1477 is a white star in the constellation Taurus 347 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,354 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 32.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 347 years ago.

347 lybrightness mag 6.21A5Vn

Also catalogued as HD 29459 · HIP 21689

8,354 K

temperature

6.21

apparent magnitude

32.27× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

347 years

at light speed from Earth

1.45×

as hot as the Sun

32.27×

the Sun's light output

1.08

absolute magnitude

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HR 1477A-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Taurus

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.