A-type star · white star
HR 1512
HR 1512 is a white star in the constellation Taurus 687 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,455 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 112× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 687 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 30122 · HIP 22128
9,455 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
112× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
687 years
at light speed from Earth
1.64×
as hot as the Sun
112×
the Sun's light output
-0.28
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.