B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3611
HR 3611 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 849 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,153 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 164× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 849 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 77907 · HIP 44423
11,153 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
164× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
849 years
at light speed from Earth
1.93×
as hot as the Sun
164×
the Sun's light output
-0.69
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.