F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1418

HR 1418 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Caelum 108 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,528 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 108 years ago.

108 lybrightness mag 6.10F8V

Also catalogued as HD 28454 · HIP 20781

6,528 K

temperature

6.10

apparent magnitude

3.47× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

108 years

at light speed from Earth

1.13×

as hot as the Sun

3.47×

the Sun's light output

3.50

absolute magnitude

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Brightness mag 6.1To 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.