B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3674

HR 3674 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 612 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,235 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 246× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 612 years ago.

612 lybrightness mag 5.24B4V+...

Also catalogued as HD 79735 · HIP 45344

12,235 K

temperature

5.24

apparent magnitude

246× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4V+...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

612 years

at light speed from Earth

2.12×

as hot as the Sun

246×

the Sun's light output

-1.13

absolute magnitude

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HR 3674B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Vela

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.