B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1961

HR 1961 is a blue-white star in the constellation Taurus 828 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,107 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 181× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 828 years ago.

828 lybrightness mag 6.23B2.5Ve

Also catalogued as HD 37967 · HIP 26964

11,107 K
temperature
6.23
apparent magnitude
181× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2.5Ve
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
828 years
at light speed from Earth
1.92×
as hot as the Sun
181×
the Sun's light output
-0.79
absolute magnitude
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HR 1961B-type
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Brightness mag 6.2To 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.