F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 7161
HR 7161 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pavo 184 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,158 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 184 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 175986 · HIP 93574
6,158 K
temperature
5.89
apparent magnitude
12.17× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
184 years
at light speed from Earth
1.07×
as hot as the Sun
12.17×
the Sun's light output
2.14
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.