A-type star · white star

HR 3559

HR 3559 is a white star in the constellation Pyxis 234 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,511 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 234 years ago.

234 lybrightness mag 6.39A4V

Also catalogued as HD 76512 · HIP 43853

8,511 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
12.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
234 years
at light speed from Earth
1.47×
as hot as the Sun
12.43×
the Sun's light output
2.11
absolute magnitude
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HR 3559A-type
Sky regionPyxisthis direction
StarEta Pyx19 ly
StarDelta Pyx21 ly
StarHR 338122 ly
StarAlpha Pyxstar
StarBeta Pyxstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pyxis
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To 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.