F-type star · yellow-white star
HD 15228
HD 15228 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 121 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,625 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 121 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 11427
6,625 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
3.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
121 years
at light speed from Earth
1.15×
as hot as the Sun
3.18×
the Sun's light output
3.60
absolute magnitude
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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.