F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1687

HR 1687 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Orion 123 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,566 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 123 years ago.

123 lybrightness mag 5.89F5V

Also catalogued as HD 33608 · HIP 24162

6,566 K

temperature

5.89

apparent magnitude

5.43× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

123 years

at light speed from Earth

1.14×

as hot as the Sun

5.43×

the Sun's light output

3.01

absolute magnitude

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HR 1687F-type

Sky regionOrionthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.