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Delta Fornacis, Latinized from δ Fornacis, is a solitary, blue-white hued star near the middle of the southern constellation of Fornax. With an apparent visual magnitude of 5.00, it is faintly visible to the naked eye at night. The star has an annual parallax shift of 4.1 mas, indicating it lies at a distance of approximately 790 light years from the Sun. It is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +26 km/s.

The stellar classification of Delta Fornacis is B5 III, matching an evolved B-type giant star. It has an angular diameter of 0.215±0.015 mas, which, at the estimated distance of the star, yields a physical size of around 6 times the radius of the Sun. Around 63 million years old, the star is spinning rapidly with a projected rotational velocity of 185 km/s. It has an estimated 5.9 times the Sun's mass and radiates 1,291 times the solar luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of 16,230 K.

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   ${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}2\cdot R_{*}&={\frac {(259.7\cdot 0.215\cdot 10^{-3})\ {\text{AU}}}{0.0046491\ {\text{AU}}/R_{\bigodot }}}\\&\approx 12.0\cdot R_{\bigodot }\end{aligned}}}$

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v t e Constellation of Fornax
List of stars in Fornax Fornax in Chinese astronomy Chandra Deep Field South Hubble Legacy Field
Stars	Bayer α (Dalim) β γ γ δ ε ζ η η η ι ι κ λ λ μ ν π ρ σ τ υ φ χ χ χ ψ ω Variable R TZ UZ HR 683 858 HD 15337 20781 20782 20868 (Intan) Other 2MASS J02431371−2453298 HIP 13044 LP 944-20 UDF 2457 WASP-72 (Diya)
Exoplanets HD 16417 b HD 20781 b c d e HD 20782 b HD 20868 b (Baiduri) TOI-849 b
Star clusters NGC 1049
Nebulae NGC 1360
Galaxies	NGC 823 824 922 986 1097 1210 1255 1288 1310 1316 1317 1318 1326 1350 1365 1374 1375 1379 1380 1381 1387 1398 1399 1406 1425 1427 Other Fornax Dwarf HUDF-JD2 GS-NDG-9422 IC 335 IC 1993 JADES-GS-z14-0 JADES-GS-z7-01-QU MRC 0316-257 PGC 13809 UDF 423 UDFj-39546284 UDFy-38135539
Galaxy clusters Fornax Cluster
Astronomical events SN 1992bd SN 1999eu SN 2003B
Category

• B-type giants
• Fornax
• Bayer objects
• Durchmusterung objects
• Henry Draper Catalogue objects
• Hipparcos objects
• Bright Star Catalogue objects