B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1947

440 lybrightness mag 5.81B8V

Also catalogued as HD 37717 · HIP 26545

11,216 K

temperature

5.81

apparent magnitude

75.02× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

440 years

at light speed from Earth

1.94×

as hot as the Sun

75.02×

the Sun's light output

0.16

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1947B-type

Sky regionColumbathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 1973 →47 ly apart
Eta Col →47 ly apart
HR 1813 →48 ly apart
HR 2008 →56 ly apart
HR 1958 →63 ly apart
HR 2262 →66 ly apart

Bright stars in Columba

Phact →mag 2.6
Wazn →mag 3.1
Del Col →mag 3.9
Eps Col →mag 3.9
Eta Col →mag 4.0
Gam Col →mag 4.4
Kap Col →mag 4.4
Omi Col →mag 4.8

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook 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.