F-type star · yellow-white star

12 Per

12 Per is a yellow-white star in the constellation Perseus 78.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,039 K, and it shines at 5.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 79 years ago.

78.9 lybrightness mag 4.91F9V

Also catalogued as HR 788 · HD 16739 · HIP 12623 · Gliese Gl 105.6

6,039 K

temperature

4.91

apparent magnitude

5.54× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

79 years

at light speed from Earth

1.05×

as hot as the Sun

5.54×

the Sun's light output

2.99

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionPerseusthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Perseus

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.