F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 2562

HR 2562 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pictor 110 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,591 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 110 years ago.

110 lybrightness mag 6.11F7III-IV

Also catalogued as HD 50571 · HIP 32775

6,591 K
temperature
6.11
apparent magnitude
3.54× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
110 years
at light speed from Earth
1.14×
as hot as the Sun
3.54×
the Sun's light output
3.48
absolute magnitude
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HR 2562F-type
Sky regionPictorthis direction
StarHR 235410 ly
StarAlpha Pic13 ly
StarHR 307015 ly
StarGamma Picstar
StarDelta Picstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pictor
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pictor

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.