F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 816

HR 816 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 160 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,386 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 160 years ago.

160 lybrightness mag 6.04F0III:

Also catalogued as HD 17163 · HIP 12862

7,386 K

temperature

6.04

apparent magnitude

8.05× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0III:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

160 years

at light speed from Earth

1.28×

as hot as the Sun

8.05×

the Sun's light output

2.58

absolute magnitude

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HR 816F-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.0To 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.