G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 3677
HR 3677 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Vela 642 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,201 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 154× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 642 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 79807 · HIP 45386
5,201 K
temperature
5.85
apparent magnitude
154× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0/K1III+..
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
642 years
at light speed from Earth
0.90×
as hot as the Sun
154×
the Sun's light output
-0.62
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.