F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 9046
HR 9046 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Phoenix 90.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,079 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.59× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 90 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 224022 · HIP 117880
6,079 K
temperature
6.03
apparent magnitude
2.59× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
90 years
at light speed from Earth
1.05×
as hot as the Sun
2.59×
the Sun's light output
3.82
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.