A-type star · white star

HR 1500

HR 1500 is a white star in the constellation Perseus 612 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,652 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 112× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 612 years ago.

612 lybrightness mag 6.09B8IVn

Also catalogued as HD 29866 · HIP 22034

9,652 K
temperature
6.09
apparent magnitude
112× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IVn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
612 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
112×
the Sun's light output
-0.28
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Perseus

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.