K-type star · orange
Beta Vol
Beta Vol is an orange in the constellation Volans 108 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,447 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 29.40× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 108 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3347 · HD 71878 · HIP 41312 · Gliese GJ 3499
4,447 K
temperature
3.77
apparent magnitude
29.40× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
108 years
at light speed from Earth
0.77×
as hot as the Sun
29.40×
the Sun's light output
1.18
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.