F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 1053
HR 1053 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hydrus 640 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,472 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 117× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 640 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 21563 · HIP 15840
6,472 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
117× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4:V+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
640 years
at light speed from Earth
1.12×
as hot as the Sun
117×
the Sun's light output
-0.32
absolute magnitude
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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.