B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3659

HR 3659 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 447 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,348 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 694× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 447 years ago.

447 lybrightness mag 3.43B2IV

Also catalogued as HD 79351 · HIP 45080

13,348 K
temperature
3.43
apparent magnitude
694× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
447 years
at light speed from Earth
2.31×
as hot as the Sun
694×
the Sun's light output
-2.25
absolute magnitude
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HR 3659B-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.4To see it no equipment neededLook toward Carina

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.