B-type star · blue-white star

HD 70309

940 lybrightness mag 6.45B3V

Also catalogued as HIP 40749

12,122 K
temperature
6.45
apparent magnitude
190× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
940 years
at light speed from Earth
2.10×
as hot as the Sun
190×
the Sun's light output
-0.85
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Vela

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.