F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 3079
HR 3079 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Puppis 58.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,528 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 59 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 64379 · HIP 38423 · Gliese Gl 292A
6,528 K
temperature
5.01
apparent magnitude
2.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3/F5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
59 years
at light speed from Earth
1.13×
as hot as the Sun
2.78×
the Sun's light output
3.74
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.