F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6379

HR 6379 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ursa Minor 152 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,424 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.44× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 152 years ago.

152 lybrightness mag 6.17F0IVn

Also catalogued as HD 155154 · HIP 83317

7,424 K
temperature
6.17
apparent magnitude
6.44× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IVn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
152 years
at light speed from Earth
1.29×
as hot as the Sun
6.44×
the Sun's light output
2.83
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To 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.