F-type star · yellow-white star

40 Dra

237 lybrightness mag 6.11K2Vvar

Also catalogued as HR 6809 · HD 166865 · HIP 88127

6,295 K

temperature

6.11

apparent magnitude

16.52× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2Vvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

237 years

at light speed from Earth

1.09×

as hot as the Sun

16.52×

the Sun's light output

1.80

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

40 DraF-type

Sky regionDracothis direction

Nearest stars

41 Dra →30 ly apart
74 Dra →37 ly apart
HR 8546 →43 ly apart
HR 4606 →45 ly apart
50 Dra →49 ly apart
29Rho2Cep →50 ly apart

Bright stars in Draco

Eltanin →mag 2.2
Athebyne →mag 2.7
Rastaban →mag 2.8
Altais →mag 3.1
Aldhibah →mag 3.2
Edasich →mag 3.3
44Chi Dra →mag 3.5
Thuban →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.1To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Draco

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.