F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 2158
HR 2158 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Puppis 87.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,421 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 88 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 41742 · HIP 28790
6,421 K
temperature
5.93
apparent magnitude
2.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
88 years
at light speed from Earth
1.11×
as hot as the Sun
2.67×
the Sun's light output
3.78
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.