F-type star · yellow-white star
Rho And
Rho And is a yellow-white star in the constellation Andromeda 158 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,664 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 158 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 82 · HD 1671 · HIP 1686
6,664 K
temperature
5.16
apparent magnitude
17.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
158 years
at light speed from Earth
1.15×
as hot as the Sun
17.72×
the Sun's light output
1.73
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.