F-type star · yellow-white star
59 Eri
59 Eri is a yellow-white star in the constellation Eridanus 136 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,226 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.53× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 136 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1538 · HD 30606 · HIP 22325
6,226 K
temperature
5.76
apparent magnitude
7.53× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
136 years
at light speed from Earth
1.08×
as hot as the Sun
7.53×
the Sun's light output
2.66
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.