B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3670
HR 3670 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 510 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,809 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 91.12× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 510 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 79621 · HIP 45270
10,809 K
temperature
5.92
apparent magnitude
91.12× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
510 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
91.12×
the Sun's light output
-0.05
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.