B-type star · blue-white star
HR 1966
HR 1966 is a blue-white star in the constellation Columba 501 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,653 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 59.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 501 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 38056 · HIP 26796
10,653 K
temperature
6.35
apparent magnitude
59.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
501 years
at light speed from Earth
1.85×
as hot as the Sun
59.27×
the Sun's light output
0.42
absolute magnitude
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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.