A-type star · white star

HR 1915

HR 1915 is a white star in the constellation Columba 172 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,563 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 172 years ago.

172 lybrightness mag 6.26A2III/IV

Also catalogued as HD 37286 · HIP 26309

8,563 K
temperature
6.26
apparent magnitude
7.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
172 years
at light speed from Earth
1.48×
as hot as the Sun
7.61×
the Sun's light output
2.65
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Columba

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.