A-type star · white star
HR 3456
HR 3456 is a white star in the constellation Vela. Its surface is about 8,394 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 72,443,596× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 5.20B5Iab
Also catalogued as HD 74371 · HIP 42679
8,394 K
temperature
5.20
apparent magnitude
72,443,596× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5Iab
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.45×
as hot as the Sun
72,443,596×
the Sun's light output
-14.80
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.