F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 755

HR 755 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Horologium 190 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,348 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 190 years ago.

190 lybrightness mag 6.24F6V

Also catalogued as HD 16170 · HIP 11925

6,348 K

temperature

6.24

apparent magnitude

9.38× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F6V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

190 years

at light speed from Earth

1.10×

as hot as the Sun

9.38×

the Sun's light output

2.42

absolute magnitude

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HR 755F-type

Sky regionHorologiumthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Horologium

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.