A-type star · white star

HR 853

287 lybrightness mag 6.36A0V

Also catalogued as HD 17864 · HIP 13271

9,652 K

temperature

6.36

apparent magnitude

19.32× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

287 years

at light speed from Earth

1.67×

as hot as the Sun

19.32×

the Sun's light output

1.64

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 853A-type

Sky regionEridanusthis direction

Nearest stars

HD 13218 →46 ly apart
HR 588 →50 ly apart
Phi Phe →60 ly apart
HR 1157 →61 ly apart
HD 13387 →66 ly apart
HR 574 →69 ly apart

Bright stars in Eridanus

Cursa →mag 2.8
Acamar →mag 2.9
Zaurak →mag 3.0
Rana →mag 3.5
41Ups4Eri →mag 3.5
Phi Eri →mag 3.6
Chi Eri →mag 3.7
16Tau4Eri →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Eridanus

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.