F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1501

HR 1501 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Auriga 196 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,393 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.00× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 196 years ago.

196 lybrightness mag 6.49A8V

Also catalogued as HD 29867 · HIP 22003

7,393 K
temperature
6.49
apparent magnitude
8.00× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
196 years
at light speed from Earth
1.28×
as hot as the Sun
8.00×
the Sun's light output
2.59
absolute magnitude
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HR 1501F-type
Sky regionAurigathis direction
StarHR 152919 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Auriga

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.