G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 3591
HR 3591 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Vela 210 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,793 K, and it shines at 60.15× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 210 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 77258 · HIP 44191
5,793 K
temperature
4.45
apparent magnitude
60.15× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Fp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
210 years
at light speed from Earth
1.00×
as hot as the Sun
60.15×
the Sun's light output
0.40
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.