B-type star · blue-white star

HR 1962

1,843 lybrightness mag 6.22B4/B5III

Also catalogued as HD 37971 · HIP 26821

12,216 K

temperature

6.22

apparent magnitude

904× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4/B5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,843 years

at light speed from Earth

2.12×

as hot as the Sun

904×

the Sun's light output

-2.54

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 1962B-type

Sky regionLepusthis direction

Nearest stars

8 Lep →250 ly apart
HR 1944 →300 ly apart
HR 1640 →300 ly apart
HR 2271 →320 ly apart
Arneb →390 ly apart
HR 1887 →400 ly apart

Bright stars in Lepus

Arneb →mag 2.6
Nihal →mag 2.8
2Eps Lep →mag 3.2
5Mu Lep →mag 3.3
14Zet Lep →mag 3.5
13Gam Lep →mag 3.6
16Eta Lep →mag 3.7
15Del Lep →mag 3.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Lepus

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.