F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1978

HR 1978 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Orion 192 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,337 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 192 years ago.

192 lybrightness mag 6.09F0III:n

Also catalogued as HD 38309 · HIP 27118

7,337 K

temperature

6.09

apparent magnitude

11.06× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F0III:n

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

192 years

at light speed from Earth

1.27×

as hot as the Sun

11.06×

the Sun's light output

2.24

absolute magnitude

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HR 1978F-type

Sky regionOrionthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Orion

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.