B-type star · blue-white star

Delta For

Delta For is a blue-white star in the constellation Fornax 847 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,671 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 593× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 847 years ago.

847 lybrightness mag 4.99B5III

Also catalogued as HR 1134 · HD 23227 · HIP 17304

12,671 K
temperature
4.99
apparent magnitude
593× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
847 years
at light speed from Earth
2.20×
as hot as the Sun
593×
the Sun's light output
-2.08
absolute magnitude
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Delta ForB-type
Sky regionFornaxthis direction
StarHR 1299100 ly
StarHR 1386160 ly
StarHR 1323190 ly
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StarBeta Forstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Fornax
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To see it no equipment neededLook 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.