F-type star · yellow-white star
Zeta For
Zeta For is a yellow-white star in the constellation Fornax 106 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,740 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 106 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 901 · HD 18692 · HIP 13942
6,740 K
temperature
5.69
apparent magnitude
4.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
106 years
at light speed from Earth
1.17×
as hot as the Sun
4.91×
the Sun's light output
3.12
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.