F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 856
HR 856 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Aries 350 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,591 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 350 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 17918 · HIP 13448
6,591 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
30.23× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
350 years
at light speed from Earth
1.14×
as hot as the Sun
30.23×
the Sun's light output
1.15
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.