F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 870

140 lybrightness mag 5.97F7IV

Also catalogued as HD 18262 · HIP 13679

6,490 K

temperature

5.97

apparent magnitude

6.58× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F7IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

140 years

at light speed from Earth

1.12×

as hot as the Sun

6.58×

the Sun's light output

2.80

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 870F-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 783 →14 ly apart
HR 816 →23 ly apart
38 Ari →24 ly apart
HD 15228 →25 ly apart
64 Cet →27 ly apart
31 Ari →30 ly apart

Bright stars in Cetus

Diphda →mag 2.0
Menkar →mag 2.5
31Eta Cet →mag 3.5
Kaffaljidhma →mag 3.5
52Tau Cet →mag 3.5
8Iot Cet →mag 3.6
45The Cet →mag 3.6
Baten Kaitos →mag 3.7

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Cetus

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.