B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1271

499 lybrightness mag 6.40B9V

Also catalogued as HD 25887 · HIP 17328

10,188 K

temperature

6.40

apparent magnitude

56.08× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

499 years

at light speed from Earth

1.77×

as hot as the Sun

56.08×

the Sun's light output

0.48

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1271B-type

Sky regionOctansthis direction

Nearest stars

Tau Oct →39 ly apart
HR 1531 →71 ly apart
Eps Men →83 ly apart
Xi Oct →83 ly apart
HR 8995 →84 ly apart
Del Men →86 ly apart

Bright stars in Octans

Nu Oct →mag 3.7
Bet Oct →mag 4.1
Del Oct →mag 4.3
The Oct →mag 4.8
Eps Oct →mag 5.1
Gam1Oct →mag 5.1
Alp Oct →mag 5.1
Lam Oct →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Octans

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.