F-type star · yellow-white star
HD 23308
HD 23308 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Horologium 132 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,291 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 132 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 17298
6,291 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
3.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
132 years
at light speed from Earth
1.09×
as hot as the Sun
3.56×
the Sun's light output
3.47
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.