A-type star · white star
HR 3647
HR 3647 is a white star in the constellation Vela 527 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,403 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 527 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 79025 · HIP 44979
8,403 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
58.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A9Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
527 years
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
58.18×
the Sun's light output
0.44
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.