F-type star · yellow-white star
HD 31423
HD 31423 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Orion 195 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,801 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.46× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 195 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 22938
6,801 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
8.46× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
195 years
at light speed from Earth
1.18×
as hot as the Sun
8.46×
the Sun's light output
2.53
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.