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.

228 lybrightness mag 6.40F1V

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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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.