F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 2236

HR 2236 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Orion 314 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,659 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.85× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 314 years ago.

314 lybrightness mag 6.37F5IV:

Also catalogued as HD 43358 · HIP 29746

6,659 K
temperature
6.37
apparent magnitude
22.85× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5IV:
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
314 years
at light speed from Earth
1.15×
as hot as the Sun
22.85×
the Sun's light output
1.45
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Orion

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.