F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 2408

HR 2408 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Dorado 316 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,282 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 25.10× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 316 years ago.

316 lybrightness mag 6.28F0III

Also catalogued as HD 46730 · HIP 30973

7,282 K
temperature
6.28
apparent magnitude
25.10× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
316 years
at light speed from Earth
1.26×
as hot as the Sun
25.10×
the Sun's light output
1.35
absolute magnitude
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HR 2408F-type
Sky regionDoradothis direction
StarEta¹ Dor15 ly
StarNu Dor26 ly
StarHR 266231 ly
StarAlpha Dorstar
StarBeta Dorstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Dorado
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Dorado

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.