F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 198
HR 198 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Phoenix 210 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,481 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.19× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 210 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 4293 · HIP 3521
7,481 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
15.19× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
210 years
at light speed from Earth
1.30×
as hot as the Sun
15.19×
the Sun's light output
1.90
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.