A-type star · white star

HR 817

357 lybrightness mag 6.21A1V

Also catalogued as HD 17168 · HIP 12786

9,652 K

temperature

6.21

apparent magnitude

34.20× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

357 years

at light speed from Earth

1.67×

as hot as the Sun

34.20×

the Sun's light output

1.01

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 817A-type

Sky regionFornaxthis direction

Nearest stars

Lam1For →21 ly apart
HR 727 →23 ly apart
HR 893 →53 ly apart
Mu For →55 ly apart
HR 733 →56 ly apart
HR 903 →56 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.