F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1093

HR 1093 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Fornax 136 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,472 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 136 years ago.

136 lybrightness mag 6.20F5V

Also catalogued as HD 22262 · HIP 16628

6,472 K

temperature

6.20

apparent magnitude

5.03× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

136 years

at light speed from Earth

1.12×

as hot as the Sun

5.03×

the Sun's light output

3.10

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionFornaxthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Fornax

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.