F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 768
HR 768 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Andromeda 268 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,435 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 268 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 16327 · HIP 12287
6,435 K
temperature
6.19
apparent magnitude
19.72× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
268 years
at light speed from Earth
1.11×
as hot as the Sun
19.72×
the Sun's light output
1.61
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.