F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 692

HR 692 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 96.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,078 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.16× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 97 years ago.

96.7 lybrightness mag 5.43F0V

Also catalogued as HD 14691 · HIP 11029

7,078 K
temperature
5.43
apparent magnitude
5.16× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
97 years
at light speed from Earth
1.23×
as hot as the Sun
5.16×
the Sun's light output
3.07
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cetus

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.