A-type star · white star

HR 1480

HR 1480 is a white star in the constellation Taurus 160 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,747 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.83× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 160 years ago.

160 lybrightness mag 5.38A5m

Also catalogued as HD 29499 · HIP 21670

7,747 K

temperature

5.38

apparent magnitude

14.83× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A5m

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

160 years

at light speed from Earth

1.34×

as hot as the Sun

14.83×

the Sun's light output

1.92

absolute magnitude

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HR 1480A-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

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Bright stars in Taurus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To 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.