F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 140

HR 140 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Phoenix 83.1 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,519 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.35× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 83 years ago.

83.1 lybrightness mag 5.57F3IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 3158 · HIP 2711 · Gliese Gl 22.2

6,519 K

temperature

5.57

apparent magnitude

3.35× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

83 years

at light speed from Earth

1.13×

as hot as the Sun

3.35×

the Sun's light output

3.54

absolute magnitude

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To 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.