F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 206
HR 206 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cetus 290 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,374 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.83× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 290 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 4338 · HIP 3576
7,374 K
temperature
6.47
apparent magnitude
17.83× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
290 years
at light speed from Earth
1.28×
as hot as the Sun
17.83×
the Sun's light output
1.72
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.