A-type star · white star

HR 3520

HR 3520 is a white star in the constellation Vela 1,109 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,619 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,065× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,109 years ago.

1,109 lybrightness mag 4.94A2III

Also catalogued as HD 75710 · HIP 43347

9,619 K
temperature
4.94
apparent magnitude
1,065× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,109 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
1,065×
the Sun's light output
-2.72
absolute magnitude
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HR 3520A-type
Sky regionVelathis direction
StarHR 359383 ly
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Bright stars in Vela
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.