F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 993

HR 993 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Fornax 203 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,235 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 203 years ago.

203 lybrightness mag 5.93F3V+...

Also catalogued as HD 20606 · HIP 15357

7,235 K

temperature

5.93

apparent magnitude

14.36× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3V+...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

203 years

at light speed from Earth

1.25×

as hot as the Sun

14.36×

the Sun's light output

1.96

absolute magnitude

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HR 993F-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Fornax

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.