F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 409
HR 409 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Andromeda 136 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,300 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.15× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 136 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 8671 · HIP 6711
6,300 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
6.15× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
136 years
at light speed from Earth
1.09×
as hot as the Sun
6.15×
the Sun's light output
2.88
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.