A-type star · white star

HR 1068

HR 1068 is a white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 504 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,419 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 54.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 504 years ago.

504 lybrightness mag 6.45A4III

Also catalogued as HD 21769 · HIP 16587

8,419 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
54.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
504 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
54.70×
the Sun's light output
0.51
absolute magnitude
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HR 1068A-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
StarHR 109419 ly
StarHR 116130 ly
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StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.