B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1661

HR 1661 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lepus 371 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,516 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 43.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 371 years ago.

371 lybrightness mag 6.04B9.5/A0IV

Also catalogued as HD 32996 · HIP 23777

10,516 K

temperature

6.04

apparent magnitude

43.17× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9.5/A0IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

371 years

at light speed from Earth

1.82×

as hot as the Sun

43.17×

the Sun's light output

0.76

absolute magnitude

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HR 1661B-type

Sky regionLepusthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Lepus

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.