A-type star · white star

HR 234

HR 234 is a white star in the constellation Andromeda 327 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,619 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 327 years ago.

327 lybrightness mag 6.13A0p...

Also catalogued as HD 4778 · HIP 3919

9,619 K

temperature

6.13

apparent magnitude

30.96× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0p...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

327 years

at light speed from Earth

1.67×

as hot as the Sun

30.96×

the Sun's light output

1.12

absolute magnitude

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HR 234A-type

Sky regionAndromedathis direction

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Bright stars in Andromeda

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Andromeda

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.