B-type star · blue-white star
HR 465
HR 465 is a blue-white star in the constellation Andromeda 524 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,395 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 62.98× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 524 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 9996 · HIP 7651
10,395 K
temperature
6.38
apparent magnitude
62.98× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9pe...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
524 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
62.98×
the Sun's light output
0.35
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.