A-type star · white star

HR 1795

HR 1795 is a white star in the constellation Auriga 2,104 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,676 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,553× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,104 years ago.

2,104 lybrightness mag 5.92A1p

Also catalogued as HD 35520 · HIP 25471

8,676 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
1,553× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1p
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,104 years
at light speed from Earth
1.50×
as hot as the Sun
1,553×
the Sun's light output
-3.13
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.