B-type star · blue-white star

HR 970

470 lybrightness mag 6.29B9IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 20144 · HIP 14972

11,184 K

temperature

6.29

apparent magnitude

55.11× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

470 years

at light speed from Earth

1.94×

as hot as the Sun

55.11×

the Sun's light output

0.50

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 970B-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

Nearest stars

Chi2For →28 ly apart
Eta3For →38 ly apart
Eta2For →42 ly apart
Eta1For →52 ly apart
HR 1049 →52 ly apart
HR 884 →61 ly apart

Bright stars in Fornax

Dalim →mag 3.8
Bet For →mag 4.5
Nu For →mag 4.7
Ome For →mag 5.0
Del For →mag 5.0
Phi For →mag 5.1
Kap For →mag 5.2
Mu For →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Fornax

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.