B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3672
HR 3672 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 526 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,796 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 104× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 526 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 79694 · HIP 45314
11,796 K
temperature
5.85
apparent magnitude
104× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
526 years
at light speed from Earth
2.04×
as hot as the Sun
104×
the Sun's light output
-0.19
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.