F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1071

HR 1071 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 218 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,286 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 218 years ago.

218 lybrightness mag 6.37F7V

Also catalogued as HD 21794 · HIP 16602

6,286 K

temperature

6.37

apparent magnitude

11.05× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F7V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

218 years

at light speed from Earth

1.09×

as hot as the Sun

11.05×

the Sun's light output

2.24

absolute magnitude

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HR 1071F-type

Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction

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Bright stars in Camelopardalis

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Brightness mag 6.4To 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.