G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 964
HR 964 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Perseus 2,861 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,800 K, and it shines at 3,236× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,861 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 20041 · HIP 15192
5,800 K
temperature
5.79
apparent magnitude
3,236× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0Ia
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,861 years
at light speed from Earth
1.00×
as hot as the Sun
3,236×
the Sun's light output
-3.92
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.