F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1710

HR 1710 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lepus 250 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,005 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 250 years ago.

250 lybrightness mag 6.22A9II/III

Also catalogued as HD 34045 · HIP 24394

7,005 K
temperature
6.22
apparent magnitude
16.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A9II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
250 years
at light speed from Earth
1.21×
as hot as the Sun
16.67×
the Sun's light output
1.79
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Lepus

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.