F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1869

HR 1869 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Auriga 340 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,494 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.39× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 340 years ago.

340 lybrightness mag 6.10F0V:

Also catalogued as HD 36719 · HIP 26315

7,494 K

temperature

6.10

apparent magnitude

34.39× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0V:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

340 years

at light speed from Earth

1.30×

as hot as the Sun

34.39×

the Sun's light output

1.01

absolute magnitude

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HR 1869F-type

Sky regionAurigathis direction

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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Auriga

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.