A-type star · white star

Chi¹ For

Chi¹ For is a white star in the constellation Fornax 352 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,205 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 28.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 352 years ago.

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

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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.