A-type star · white star

HR 232

764 lybrightness mag 6.27A3IV

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 232A-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

Alp Scl →86 ly apart
Kap2Scl →130 ly apart
HD 3605 →140 ly apart
HD 9731 →140 ly apart
HR 85 →160 ly apart
HR 43 →160 ly apart

Bright stars in Cetus

Diphda →mag 2.0
Menkar →mag 2.5
31Eta Cet →mag 3.5
Kaffaljidhma →mag 3.5
52Tau Cet →mag 3.5
8Iot Cet →mag 3.6
45The Cet →mag 3.6
Baten Kaitos →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cetus

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.