F-type star · yellow-white star
20 Dra
20 Dra is a yellow-white star in the constellation Draco 228 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,972 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 228 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6319 · HD 153697 · HIP 82898
6,972 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
11.73× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
228 years
at light speed from Earth
1.21×
as hot as the Sun
11.73×
the Sun's light output
2.18
absolute magnitude
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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.