A-type star · white star

HR 1929

HR 1929 is a white star in the constellation Taurus 573 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,370 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 72.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 573 years ago.

573 lybrightness mag 6.42A1Vn

Also catalogued as HD 37439 · HIP 26616

9,370 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
72.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
573 years
at light speed from Earth
1.62×
as hot as the Sun
72.71×
the Sun's light output
0.20
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To 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.