F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1593

HR 1593 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 116 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,635 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 116 years ago.

116 lybrightness mag 6.03F4V

Also catalogued as HD 31662 · HIP 23380

6,635 K

temperature

6.03

apparent magnitude

4.27× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F4V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

116 years

at light speed from Earth

1.15×

as hot as the Sun

4.27×

the Sun's light output

3.27

absolute magnitude

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HR 1593F-type

Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction

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Bright stars in Camelopardalis

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Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Camelopardalis

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.