HD_117618
HD 117618
Star in the Centaurus constellation
HD 117618, named Dofida by the IAU,[8] is a single,[9] yellow-hued star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. With an apparent visual magnitude of 7.17,[2] it is too faint to be visible to the naked eyes of a typical observer. The distance to this star, as determined from its annual parallax shift of 26.34±0.60 mas as seen from Earth's orbit,[1] is about 124 light years. It is moving further away with a heliocentric radial velocity of around +1.6 km/s.[2]
This star is similar to the Sun, being a G-type main-sequence star with a stellar classification of G0 V.[3] It is about 10% more massive and 17% larger than the Sun, with an estimated age of roughly four billion years[4] and a projected rotational velocity of 3.67 km/s.[6] The star is radiating 1.6 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,019 K.[4]