F-type star · yellow-white star
14 Eri
14 Eri is a yellow-white star in the constellation Eridanus 111 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,843 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 111 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 988 · HD 20395 · HIP 15244
6,843 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
3.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
111 years
at light speed from Earth
1.19×
as hot as the Sun
3.56×
the Sun's light output
3.47
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
BINOCULARS NEEDED
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.