F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 860
HR 860 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 87.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,649 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 87 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 17948 · HIP 13665 · Gliese GJ 3188
6,649 K
temperature
5.59
apparent magnitude
3.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
87 years
at light speed from Earth
1.15×
as hot as the Sun
3.61×
the Sun's light output
3.46
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.