A-type star · white star

HR 12

256 lybrightness mag 5.93A1V

Also catalogued as HD 319 · HIP 636

8,650 K

temperature

5.93

apparent magnitude

22.72× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

256 years

at light speed from Earth

1.50×

as hot as the Sun

22.72×

the Sun's light output

1.46

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 12A-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

Kap1Scl →25 ly apart
HR 9044 →27 ly apart
2 Cet →29 ly apart
107 Aqr →32 ly apart
HR 9043 →36 ly apart
100 Aqr →38 ly apart

Bright stars in Cetus

Diphda →mag 2.0
Menkar →mag 2.5
31Eta Cet →mag 3.5
Kaffaljidhma →mag 3.5
52Tau Cet →mag 3.5
8Iot Cet →mag 3.6
45The Cet →mag 3.6
Baten Kaitos →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cetus

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.