F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 784
HR 784 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 71.0 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,282 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.99× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 71 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 16673 · HIP 12444 · Gliese GJ 3175
6,282 K
temperature
5.79
apparent magnitude
1.99× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
71 years
at light speed from Earth
1.09×
as hot as the Sun
1.99×
the Sun's light output
4.10
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.