F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 1668
HR 1668 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Auriga 159 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,615 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.14× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 159 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 33167 · HIP 24109
6,615 K
temperature
5.67
apparent magnitude
11.14× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
159 years
at light speed from Earth
1.15×
as hot as the Sun
11.14×
the Sun's light output
2.23
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.