A-type star · white star
HR 232
HR 232 is a white star in the constellation Cetus 764 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,730 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 148× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 764 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 4772 · HIP 3858
8,730 K
temperature
6.27
apparent magnitude
148× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
764 years
at light speed from Earth
1.51×
as hot as the Sun
148×
the Sun's light output
-0.58
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.