F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 1766
HR 1766 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Columba 524 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,349 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 65.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 524 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 35046 · HIP 24909
7,349 K
temperature
6.34
apparent magnitude
65.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0/F2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
524 years
at light speed from Earth
1.27×
as hot as the Sun
65.34×
the Sun's light output
0.31
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.