F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1981

HR 1981 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Columba 172 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,005 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 172 years ago.

172 lybrightness mag 6.25F3V

Also catalogued as HD 38385 · HIP 26981

7,005 K

temperature

6.25

apparent magnitude

7.67× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

172 years

at light speed from Earth

1.21×

as hot as the Sun

7.67×

the Sun's light output

2.64

absolute magnitude

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HR 1981F-type

Sky regionColumbathis direction

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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Columba

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.