B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3568

HR 3568 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 712 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,343 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 119× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 712 years ago.

712 lybrightness mag 6.36B5V

Also catalogued as HD 76640 · HIP 43763

11,343 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
119× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
712 years
at light speed from Earth
1.97×
as hot as the Sun
119×
the Sun's light output
-0.34
absolute magnitude
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HR 3568B-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Carina

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.