F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 1812
HR 1812 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lepus 147 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,669 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 147 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 35736 · HIP 25397
6,669 K
temperature
5.78
apparent magnitude
8.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
147 years
at light speed from Earth
1.16×
as hot as the Sun
8.61×
the Sun's light output
2.51
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.