HIP 207 vs Tau Phe

Nothing in the pair compares to the gulf between them: 593 light-years to Tau Phe, 326,156 to HIP 207. Intrinsically the balance shifts: HIP 207 carries an absolute magnitude of −14.13 against −0.59 for Tau Phe, making it about 260,615 times more luminous once distance is removed from the comparison. HIP 207 is a G-type star in Cassiopeia; Tau Phe is a G-type star. Tau Phe is the brighter of the pair in the sky, at magnitude +5.71 against +5.87 for HIP 207, roughly 1.2 times more light reaching the eye.