F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1817

HR 1817 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lepus 88.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,158 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 88 years ago.

88.2 lybrightness mag 6.30F7V:

Also catalogued as HD 35850 · HIP 25486

6,158 K

temperature

6.30

apparent magnitude

1.92× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F7V:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

88 years

at light speed from Earth

1.07×

as hot as the Sun

1.92×

the Sun's light output

4.14

absolute magnitude

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Sky regionLepusthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.3To 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.