A-type star · white star
HR 1559
HR 1559 is a white star in the constellation Caelum 268 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,980 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 268 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 31093 · HIP 22573
8,980 K
temperature
5.82
apparent magnitude
27.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2/A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
268 years
at light speed from Earth
1.56×
as hot as the Sun
27.64×
the Sun's light output
1.25
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.