B-type star · blue-white star

HR 51

339 lybrightness mag 5.77B9V

Also catalogued as HD 1064 · HIP 1191

11,311 K

temperature

5.77

apparent magnitude

46.22× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

339 years

at light speed from Earth

1.96×

as hot as the Sun

46.22×

the Sun's light output

0.69

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 51B-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8979 →52 ly apart
HR 9009 →52 ly apart
HR 9027 →53 ly apart
20 Psc →59 ly apart
HR 9101 →59 ly apart
HR 150 →60 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook 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.