F-type star · yellow-white star
Rho Tel
Rho Tel is a yellow-white star in the constellation Telescopium 185 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,247 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 23.97× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 185 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 7213 · HD 177171 · HIP 93815
6,247 K
temperature
5.17
apparent magnitude
23.97× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
185 years
at light speed from Earth
1.08×
as hot as the Sun
23.97×
the Sun's light output
1.40
absolute magnitude
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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.