F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 3617
HR 3617 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cancer 190 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,610 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.20× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 190 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 78175 · HIP 44768
6,610 K
temperature
6.39
apparent magnitude
8.20× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
190 years
at light speed from Earth
1.15×
as hot as the Sun
8.20×
the Sun's light output
2.57
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.