F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 251

240 lybrightness mag 6.44F3V

Also catalogued as HD 5156 · HIP 4164

6,679 K

temperature

6.44

apparent magnitude

12.52× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

240 years

at light speed from Earth

1.16×

as hot as the Sun

12.52×

the Sun's light output

2.11

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 251F-type

Sky regionCetusthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 325 →21 ly apart
Sig Scl →30 ly apart
48 Cet →38 ly apart
Tau Scl →46 ly apart
Kap1Scl →46 ly apart
HR 12 →49 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.