F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 1076
HR 1076 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Eridanus 113 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,439 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 113 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 21899 · HIP 16310
6,439 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
3.74× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
113 years
at light speed from Earth
1.12×
as hot as the Sun
3.74×
the Sun's light output
3.42
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.