F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 418
HR 418 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Andromeda 174 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,393 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 174 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 8801 · HIP 6794
7,393 K
temperature
6.42
apparent magnitude
6.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
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spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
174 years
at light speed from Earth
1.28×
as hot as the Sun
6.67×
the Sun's light output
2.79
absolute magnitude
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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.