B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1172

386 lybrightness mag 5.44B8V

Also catalogued as HD 23753 · HIP 17776

11,046 K

temperature

5.44

apparent magnitude

81.36× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

386 years

at light speed from Earth

1.91×

as hot as the Sun

81.36×

the Sun's light output

0.07

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1172B-type

Sky regionTaurusthis direction

Nearest stars

Atlas →5.7 ly apart
Pleione →6.4 ly apart
Merope →7.5 ly apart
Maia →7.9 ly apart
22 Tau →10 ly apart
Celaeno →12 ly apart

Bright stars in Taurus

Elnath →mag 1.6
Alcyone →mag 2.9
Tianguan →mag 3.0
Chamukuy →mag 3.4
35Lam Tau →mag 3.4
Ain →mag 3.5
1Omi Tau →mag 3.6
Atlas →mag 3.6

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Taurus

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.