F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 8793

HR 8793 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Grus 149 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,453 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 149 years ago.

149 lybrightness mag 5.81F6.5IV-V+..

Also catalogued as HD 218269 · HIP 114167

6,453 K

temperature

5.81

apparent magnitude

8.63× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F6.5IV-V+..

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

149 years

at light speed from Earth

1.12×

as hot as the Sun

8.63×

the Sun's light output

2.51

absolute magnitude

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HR 8793F-type

Sky regionGrusthis direction

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Bright stars in Grus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Grus

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.