F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1401

HR 1401 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 332 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,424 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 332 years ago.

332 lybrightness mag 5.94A8m

Also catalogued as HD 28204 · HIP 21247

7,424 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
37.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
332 years
at light speed from Earth
1.29×
as hot as the Sun
37.91×
the Sun's light output
0.90
absolute magnitude
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HR 1401F-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
StarHR 113827 ly
StarHD 2522532 ly
StarGamma Cam34 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Camelopardalis

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.