F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 1064
HR 1064 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hydrus 129 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,801 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 129 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 21722 · HIP 15968
6,801 K
temperature
5.96
apparent magnitude
5.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
129 years
at light speed from Earth
1.18×
as hot as the Sun
5.59×
the Sun's light output
2.98
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.