B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3516

HR 3516 is a blue-white star in the constellation Pyxis 376 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,868 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.34× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 376 years ago.

376 lybrightness mag 6.17B9V

Also catalogued as HD 75649 · HIP 43394

10,868 K
temperature
6.17
apparent magnitude
39.34× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
376 years
at light speed from Earth
1.88×
as hot as the Sun
39.34×
the Sun's light output
0.86
absolute magnitude
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HR 3516B-type
Sky regionPyxisthis direction
StarHR 359730 ly
StarHR 363738 ly
StarHR 348343 ly
StarAlpha Pyxstar
StarGamma Pyxstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pyxis
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pyxis

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.