F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 756
HR 756 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Andromeda 177 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,380 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 177 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 16176 · HIP 12181
6,380 K
temperature
5.91
apparent magnitude
11.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
177 years
at light speed from Earth
1.11×
as hot as the Sun
11.06×
the Sun's light output
2.24
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.