F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 968
HR 968 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Eridanus 139 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,674 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 139 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 20121 · HIP 14913
6,674 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
6.74× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3V+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
139 years
at light speed from Earth
1.16×
as hot as the Sun
6.74×
the Sun's light output
2.78
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.