F-type star · yellow-white star
3 Boo
3 Boo is a yellow-white star in the constellation Boötes 293 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,286 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 28.68× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 293 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 5182 · HD 120064 · HIP 67239
6,286 K
temperature
5.97
apparent magnitude
28.68× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
293 years
at light speed from Earth
1.09×
as hot as the Sun
28.68×
the Sun's light output
1.21
absolute magnitude
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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.