B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1462

819 lybrightness mag 6.34B7III

Also catalogued as HD 29227 · HIP 21428

11,573 K

temperature

6.34

apparent magnitude

160× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

819 years

at light speed from Earth

2.01×

as hot as the Sun

160×

the Sun's light output

-0.66

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1462B-type

Sky regionEridanusthis direction

Nearest stars

46 Eri →46 ly apart
HR 1469 →75 ly apart
HR 1363 →83 ly apart
HR 1452 →95 ly apart
HR 1332 →98 ly apart
62 Eri →110 ly apart

Bright stars in Eridanus

Cursa →mag 2.8
Acamar →mag 2.9
Zaurak →mag 3.0
Rana →mag 3.5
41Ups4Eri →mag 3.5
Phi Eri →mag 3.6
Chi Eri →mag 3.7
16Tau4Eri →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Eridanus

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.