F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 3394
HR 3394 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cancer 254 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,229 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 254 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 72943 · HIP 42187
7,229 K
temperature
6.33
apparent magnitude
15.47× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
254 years
at light speed from Earth
1.25×
as hot as the Sun
15.47×
the Sun's light output
1.88
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.