F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 473
HR 473 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 252 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,182 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 252 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 10148 · HIP 7679
7,182 K
temperature
5.58
apparent magnitude
30.48× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
252 years
at light speed from Earth
1.24×
as hot as the Sun
30.48×
the Sun's light output
1.14
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.