F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 199
HR 199 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Tucana 286 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,644 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 25.21× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 286 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 4294 · HIP 3489
6,644 K
temperature
6.06
apparent magnitude
25.21× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
286 years
at light speed from Earth
1.15×
as hot as the Sun
25.21×
the Sun's light output
1.35
absolute magnitude
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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.