F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 2079

HR 2079 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Auriga 330 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,349 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.17× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 330 years ago.

330 lybrightness mag 6.42A5m

Also catalogued as HD 40062 · HIP 28385

7,349 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
24.17× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5m
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
330 years
at light speed from Earth
1.27×
as hot as the Sun
24.17×
the Sun's light output
1.39
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To 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.