F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6237

HR 6237 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Draco 85.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,016 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.88× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 85 years ago.

85.2 lybrightness mag 4.84F2V

Also catalogued as HD 151613 · HIP 82020 · Gliese GJ 9578

7,016 K

temperature

4.84

apparent magnitude

6.88× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

85 years

at light speed from Earth

1.22×

as hot as the Sun

6.88×

the Sun's light output

2.76

absolute magnitude

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HR 6237F-type

Sky regionDracothis direction

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Bright stars in Draco

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Draco

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.