F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 357

HR 357 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cepheus 237 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,674 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.26× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 237 years ago.

237 lybrightness mag 6.27F5Vs

Also catalogued as HD 7238 · HIP 5947

6,674 K

temperature

6.27

apparent magnitude

14.26× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F5Vs

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

237 years

at light speed from Earth

1.16×

as hot as the Sun

14.26×

the Sun's light output

1.97

absolute magnitude

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HR 357F-type

Sky regionCepheusthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Cepheus

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.