A-type star · white star

HR 3108

HR 3108 is a white star in the constellation Camelopardalis 480 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,520 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 49.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 480 years ago.

480 lybrightness mag 6.45A3IV

Also catalogued as HD 65299 · HIP 40559

9,520 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
49.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
480 years
at light speed from Earth
1.65×
as hot as the Sun
49.70×
the Sun's light output
0.61
absolute magnitude
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HR 3108A-type
Sky regionCamelopardalisthis direction
StarHR 274226 ly
StarHR 260935 ly
StarHR 412166 ly
StarBeta Camstar
StarAlpha Camstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Camelopardalis
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Camelopardalis

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.