F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 3274
HR 3274 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Carina 242 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,896 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 242 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 70267 · HIP 40655
6,896 K
temperature
6.47
apparent magnitude
12.38× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
242 years
at light speed from Earth
1.19×
as hot as the Sun
12.38×
the Sun's light output
2.12
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.