F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 3499

HR 3499 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lynx 92.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,175 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.28× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 92 years ago.

92.5 lybrightness mag 6.22F7Vn

Also catalogued as HD 75332 · HIP 43410

6,175 K

temperature

6.22

apparent magnitude

2.28× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F7Vn

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

92 years

at light speed from Earth

1.07×

as hot as the Sun

2.28×

the Sun's light output

3.96

absolute magnitude

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HR 3499F-type

Sky regionLynxthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Lynx

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.