A-type star · white star

HR 3136

HR 3136 is a white star in the constellation Canis Minor 308 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,966 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 308 years ago.

308 lybrightness mag 5.65A1V

Also catalogued as HD 65900 · HIP 39213

9,966 K
temperature
5.65
apparent magnitude
42.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
308 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
42.70×
the Sun's light output
0.77
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Canis Minor

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.