F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 4686

HR 4686 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ursa Minor 153 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,182 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 153 years ago.

153 lybrightness mag 6.27F2V

Also catalogued as HD 107192 · HIP 59767

7,182 K
temperature
6.27
apparent magnitude
5.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
153 years
at light speed from Earth
1.24×
as hot as the Sun
5.96×
the Sun's light output
2.91
absolute magnitude
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HR 4686F-type
Sky regionUrsa Minorthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ursa Minor

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.