F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 2401

HR 2401 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 58.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,278 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1.86× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 58 years ago.

58.3 lybrightness mag 5.44F8V

Also catalogued as HD 46588 · HIP 32439 · Gliese Gl 240.1

6,278 K

temperature

5.44

apparent magnitude

1.86× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

58 years

at light speed from Earth

1.09×

as hot as the Sun

1.86×

the Sun's light output

4.18

absolute magnitude

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HR 2401F-type

Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction

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Bright stars in Camelopardalis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Camelopardalis

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.