F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 2118

HR 2118 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lepus 205 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,112 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 205 years ago.

205 lybrightness mag 6.21F2IV

Also catalogued as HD 40745 · HIP 28434

7,112 K

temperature

6.21

apparent magnitude

11.29× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

205 years

at light speed from Earth

1.23×

as hot as the Sun

11.29×

the Sun's light output

2.22

absolute magnitude

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HR 2118F-type

Sky regionLepusthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Lepus

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.