F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 8843
HR 8843 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Tucana 67.0 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,295 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.04× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 67 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 219482 · HIP 114948 · Gliese GJ 1282
6,295 K
temperature
5.64
apparent magnitude
2.04× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
67 years
at light speed from Earth
1.09×
as hot as the Sun
2.04×
the Sun's light output
4.08
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.