F-type star · yellow-white star
16 Per
16 Per is a yellow-white star in the constellation Perseus 121 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,199 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 121 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 840 · HD 17584 · HIP 13254
7,199 K
temperature
4.22
apparent magnitude
24.48× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
121 years
at light speed from Earth
1.25×
as hot as the Sun
24.48×
the Sun's light output
1.38
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.