F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 6423

HR 6423 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ara 193 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,812 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.42× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 193 years ago.

193 lybrightness mag 6.27F2III

Also catalogued as HD 156331 · HIP 84759

6,812 K

temperature

6.27

apparent magnitude

9.42× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

193 years

at light speed from Earth

1.18×

as hot as the Sun

9.42×

the Sun's light output

2.42

absolute magnitude

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HR 6423F-type

Sky regionArathis direction

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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ara

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.