A-type star · white star
HR 3606
HR 3606 is a white star in the constellation Cancer 238 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,859 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.04× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 238 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 77660 · HIP 44574
7,859 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
12.04× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
238 years
at light speed from Earth
1.36×
as hot as the Sun
12.04×
the Sun's light output
2.15
absolute magnitude
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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.