G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 2072
HR 2072 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Pictor 433 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,757 K, and it shines at 65.04× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 433 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 39937 · HIP 27737
5,757 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
65.04× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
433 years
at light speed from Earth
1.00×
as hot as the Sun
65.04×
the Sun's light output
0.32
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.