F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 3258
HR 3258 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lynx 194 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,462 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 194 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 69682 · HIP 40878
7,462 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
7.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
194 years
at light speed from Earth
1.29×
as hot as the Sun
7.71×
the Sun's light output
2.63
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.