F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 238

HR 238 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cassiopeia 219 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,418 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.07× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 219 years ago.

219 lybrightness mag 6.38F2IV

Also catalogued as HD 4818 · HIP 3965

7,418 K

temperature

6.38

apparent magnitude

11.07× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

219 years

at light speed from Earth

1.29×

as hot as the Sun

11.07×

the Sun's light output

2.24

absolute magnitude

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HR 238F-type

Sky regionCassiopeiathis direction

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Bright stars in Cassiopeia

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Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cassiopeia

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.