F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 517

HR 517 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Fornax 142 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,067 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.62× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 142 years ago.

142 lybrightness mag 6.38F2V

Also catalogued as HD 10863 · HIP 8233

7,067 K

temperature

6.38

apparent magnitude

4.62× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

142 years

at light speed from Earth

1.22×

as hot as the Sun

4.62×

the Sun's light output

3.19

absolute magnitude

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HR 517F-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

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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.