F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 770

HR 770 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 241 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,719 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 241 years ago.

241 lybrightness mag 6.40F6IV

Also catalogued as HD 16399 · HIP 12272

6,719 K

temperature

6.40

apparent magnitude

13.06× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F6IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

241 years

at light speed from Earth

1.16×

as hot as the Sun

13.06×

the Sun's light output

2.06

absolute magnitude

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HR 770F-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cetus

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.