B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1860

HR 1860 is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 1,144 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,570 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 358× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,144 years ago.

1,144 lybrightness mag 6.19B6V

Also catalogued as HD 36589 · HIP 26072

10,570 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
358× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,144 years
at light speed from Earth
1.83×
as hot as the Sun
358×
the Sun's light output
-1.54
absolute magnitude
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HR 1860B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Taurus

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.