B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1902

HR 1902 is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 505 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,169 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 97.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 505 years ago.

505 lybrightness mag 5.83B9IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 37098 · HIP 26396

11,169 K
temperature
5.83
apparent magnitude
97.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
505 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
97.19×
the Sun's light output
-0.12
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook 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.