B-type star · blue-white star

HR 446

HR 446 is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 468 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,046 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 78.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 468 years ago.

468 lybrightness mag 5.90B9IV

Also catalogued as HD 9531 · HIP 7321

11,046 K
temperature
5.90
apparent magnitude
78.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
468 years
at light speed from Earth
1.91×
as hot as the Sun
78.27×
the Sun's light output
0.12
absolute magnitude
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HR 446B-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.