F-type star · yellow-white star

HD 11944

181 lybrightness mag 6.43F2V

Also catalogued as HIP 8957

6,833 K

temperature

6.43

apparent magnitude

7.21× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

181 years

at light speed from Earth

1.18×

as hot as the Sun

7.21×

the Sun's light output

2.71

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HD 11944F-type

Sky regionHydrusthis direction

Nearest stars

Gam Hor →22 ly apart
Lam Hor →23 ly apart
HR 823 →26 ly apart
Nu Hor →27 ly apart
HR 571 →27 ly apart
HD 12894 →30 ly apart

Bright stars in Hydrus

Bet Hyi →mag 2.8
Alp Hyi →mag 2.9
Gam Hyi →mag 3.3
Del Hyi →mag 4.1
Eps Hyi →mag 4.1
Eta2Hyi →mag 4.7
Nu Hyi →mag 4.8
Zet Hyi →mag 4.8

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hydrus

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.