F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 3402
HR 3402 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pyxis 586 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,918 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 117× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 586 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 73072 · HIP 42147
6,918 K
temperature
5.95
apparent magnitude
117× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
586 years
at light speed from Earth
1.20×
as hot as the Sun
117×
the Sun's light output
-0.32
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.