B-type star · blue-white star
HD 79699
HD 79699 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 565 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,709 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 74.75× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 565 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 45214
10,709 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
74.75× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
565 years
at light speed from Earth
1.86×
as hot as the Sun
74.75×
the Sun's light output
0.17
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.