F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 1616
HR 1616 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cepheus 331 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,101 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 331 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 32196 · HIP 25911
7,101 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
22.55× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
331 years
at light speed from Earth
1.23×
as hot as the Sun
22.55×
the Sun's light output
1.47
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.