B-type star · blue-white star

HR 55

627 lybrightness mag 6.35B9Vn

Also catalogued as HD 1141 · HIP 1296

10,709 K

temperature

6.35

apparent magnitude

92.90× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

627 years

at light speed from Earth

1.86×

as hot as the Sun

92.90×

the Sun's light output

-0.07

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 55B-type

Sky regionCepheusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 8867 →50 ly apart
HR 8625 →100 ly apart
16 Cas →110 ly apart
HR 8493 →120 ly apart
HR 8174 →140 ly apart
HR 233 →140 ly apart

Bright stars in Cepheus

Alderamin →mag 2.5
Errai →mag 3.2
Alfirk →mag 3.2
21Zet Cep →mag 3.4
3Eta Cep →mag 3.4
32Iot Cep →mag 3.5
27Del Cep →mag 4.1
23Eps Cep →mag 4.2

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cepheus

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.