F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1040

HR 1040 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 2,509 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,439 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7,798× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,509 years ago.

2,509 lybrightness mag 4.55A0Ia SB:

Also catalogued as HD 21389 · HIP 16281

6,439 K

temperature

4.55

apparent magnitude

7,798× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0Ia SB:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,509 years

at light speed from Earth

1.12×

as hot as the Sun

7,798×

the Sun's light output

-4.88

absolute magnitude

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HR 1040F-type

Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Camelopardalis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Camelopardalis

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.