A-type star · white star
HR 1760
HR 1760 is a white star in the constellation Auriga 293 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,775 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 293 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 34904 · HIP 25143
8,775 K
temperature
5.54
apparent magnitude
42.62× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
293 years
at light speed from Earth
1.52×
as hot as the Sun
42.62×
the Sun's light output
0.78
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.