A-type star · white star
64 Eri
64 Eri is a white star in the constellation Eridanus 290 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,678 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 84.41× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 290 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1611 · HD 32045 · HIP 23231
7,678 K
temperature
4.78
apparent magnitude
84.41× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
290 years
at light speed from Earth
1.33×
as hot as the Sun
84.41×
the Sun's light output
0.03
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.