A-type star · white star

Chi1For

352 lybrightness mag 6.39A1IV

Also catalogued as HR 1042 · HD 21423 · HIP 15987

9,205 K

temperature

6.39

apparent magnitude

28.18× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

352 years

at light speed from Earth

1.59×

as hot as the Sun

28.18×

the Sun's light output

1.23

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Chi1ForA-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

Nearest stars

Chi3For →21 ly apart
HR 1214 →36 ly apart
HR 1157 →50 ly apart
Sig For →52 ly apart
HR 1246 →56 ly apart
HR 893 →56 ly apart

Bright stars in Fornax

Dalim →mag 3.8
Bet For →mag 4.5
Nu For →mag 4.7
Ome For →mag 5.0
Del For →mag 5.0
Phi For →mag 5.1
Kap For →mag 5.2
Mu For →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Fornax

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.