F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 202

HR 202 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Phoenix 152 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,282 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 152 years ago.

152 lybrightness mag 6.15F7III

Also catalogued as HD 4304 · HIP 3527

6,282 K

temperature

6.15

apparent magnitude

6.56× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F7III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

152 years

at light speed from Earth

1.09×

as hot as the Sun

6.56×

the Sun's light output

2.81

absolute magnitude

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HR 202F-type

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Phoenix

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.