F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1404

HR 1404 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Caelum 120 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,591 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.32× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 120 years ago.

120 lybrightness mag 6.38F6V

Also catalogued as HD 28246 · HIP 20630

6,591 K

temperature

6.38

apparent magnitude

3.32× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F6V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

120 years

at light speed from Earth

1.14×

as hot as the Sun

3.32×

the Sun's light output

3.55

absolute magnitude

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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Caelum

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.