G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

Eps For

105 lybrightness mag 5.88G8/K0V

Also catalogued as HR 914 · HD 18907 · HIP 14086 · Gliese GJ 9107

5,299 K

temperature

5.88

apparent magnitude

4.01× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8/K0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

105 years

at light speed from Earth

0.92×

as hot as the Sun

4.01×

the Sun's light output

3.34

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Eps ForG-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

Nearest stars

Zet For →5.4 ly apart
HR 858 →6.4 ly apart
Iot2For →12 ly apart
11Tau3Eri →18 ly apart
Lam2For →25 ly apart
HR 997 →26 ly apart

Bright stars in Fornax

Dalim →mag 3.8
Bet For →mag 4.5
Nu For →mag 4.7
Ome For →mag 5.0
Del For →mag 5.0
Phi For →mag 5.1
Kap For →mag 5.2
Mu For →mag 5.3

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Fornax

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.