G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
3 Sgr
3 Sgr is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Sagittarius 985 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,968 K, and it shines at 1,226× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 985 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 6616 · HD 161592 · HIP 87072
5,968 K
temperature
4.53
apparent magnitude
1,226× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
985 years
at light speed from Earth
1.03×
as hot as the Sun
1,226×
the Sun's light output
-2.87
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.