F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 2368

HR 2368 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Columba 243 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,934 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.36× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 243 years ago.

243 lybrightness mag 6.32F2/F3V

Also catalogued as HD 45983 · HIP 30849

6,934 K

temperature

6.32

apparent magnitude

14.36× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2/F3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

243 years

at light speed from Earth

1.20×

as hot as the Sun

14.36×

the Sun's light output

1.96

absolute magnitude

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HR 2368F-type

Sky regionColumbathis direction

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Bright stars in Columba

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Columba

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.