A-type star · white star

HR 1924

HR 1924 is a white star in the constellation Auriga 1,059 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,623 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 372× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,059 years ago.

1,059 lybrightness mag 5.98B2IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 37367 · HIP 26606

8,623 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
372× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,059 years
at light speed from Earth
1.49×
as hot as the Sun
372×
the Sun's light output
-1.58
absolute magnitude
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HR 1924A-type
Sky regionAurigathis direction
StarHD 33463110 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.