A-type star · white star
HR 1561
HR 1561 is a white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 423 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,980 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 73.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 423 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 31134 · HIP 22936
8,980 K
temperature
5.75
apparent magnitude
73.45× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2Vs
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
423 years
at light speed from Earth
1.56×
as hot as the Sun
73.45×
the Sun's light output
0.18
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.