F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 120

HR 120 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Phoenix 141 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,061 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.73× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 141 years ago.

141 lybrightness mag 5.67F2V

Also catalogued as HD 2726 · HIP 2383

7,061 K

temperature

5.67

apparent magnitude

8.73× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

141 years

at light speed from Earth

1.22×

as hot as the Sun

8.73×

the Sun's light output

2.50

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Phoenix

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.