B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1732

HR 1732 is a blue-white star in the constellation Auriga 413 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,838 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 98.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 413 years ago.

413 lybrightness mag 5.38A0p...

Also catalogued as HD 34452 · HIP 24799

12,838 K
temperature
5.38
apparent magnitude
98.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0p...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
413 years
at light speed from Earth
2.22×
as hot as the Sun
98.63×
the Sun's light output
-0.14
absolute magnitude
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HR 1732B-type
Sky regionAurigathis direction
Star17 Aur15 ly
StarHR 185442 ly
StarPhi Aur42 ly
StarMenkalinanstar
StarMahasimstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Auriga
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Auriga

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.