A-type star · white star

HR 3517

HR 3517 is a white star in the constellation Vela 248 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,802 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 14.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 248 years ago.

248 lybrightness mag 6.38A2/A3II/III

Also catalogued as HD 75654 · HIP 43354

7,802 K
temperature
6.38
apparent magnitude
14.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2/A3II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
248 years
at light speed from Earth
1.35×
as hot as the Sun
14.13×
the Sun's light output
1.98
absolute magnitude
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HR 3517A-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Vela

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.