F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 2384

HR 2384 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Puppis 168 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,039 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 17.82× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 168 years ago.

168 lybrightness mag 5.28F2V

Also catalogued as HD 46273 · HIP 30953

7,039 K
temperature
5.28
apparent magnitude
17.82× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
168 years
at light speed from Earth
1.22×
as hot as the Sun
17.82×
the Sun's light output
1.72
absolute magnitude
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HR 2384F-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarHR 259415 ly
StarTau Pup17 ly
StarNu Pic20 ly
StarNaosstar
StarPi Pupstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Puppis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Puppis

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.