G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
Beta Dor
Beta Dor is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Dorado 1,007 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,815 K, and it shines at 2,599× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,007 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1922 · HD 37350 · HIP 26069
5,815 K
temperature
3.76
apparent magnitude
2,599× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6Ia
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,007 years
at light speed from Earth
1.01×
as hot as the Sun
2,599×
the Sun's light output
-3.69
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.