F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1591

HR 1591 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Orion 275 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,760 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 19.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 275 years ago.

275 lybrightness mag 6.25F2

Also catalogued as HD 31623 · HIP 23041

6,760 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
19.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
275 years
at light speed from Earth
1.17×
as hot as the Sun
19.61×
the Sun's light output
1.62
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Orion

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.