F-type star · yellow-white star
Alrakis
Alrakis is a yellow-white star in the constellation Draco 75.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,528 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 76 years ago.
Also catalogued as Mu Dra · HR 6370 · HD 154906 · Gliese GJ 9584A
6,528 K
temperature
5.63
apparent magnitude
2.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7 V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
76 years
at light speed from Earth
1.13×
as hot as the Sun
2.64×
the Sun's light output
3.80
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.