F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 1984

HR 1984 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pictor 277 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,494 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 277 years ago.

277 lybrightness mag 6.38F0IIIn

Also catalogued as HD 38458 · HIP 27001

7,494 K
temperature
6.38
apparent magnitude
17.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IIIn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
277 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
17.67×
the Sun's light output
1.73
absolute magnitude
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HR 1984F-type
Sky regionPictorthis direction
StarPi¹ Col27 ly
StarHR 204936 ly
StarHR 182737 ly
StarAlpha Picstar
StarGamma Picstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pictor
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pictor

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.