K-type star · orange

HR 3679

HR 3679 is an orange in the constellation Vela 640 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,791 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 264× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 640 years ago.

640 lybrightness mag 5.26G8II/III

Also catalogued as HD 79846 · HIP 45328

4,791 K
temperature
5.26
apparent magnitude
264× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II/III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
640 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
264×
the Sun's light output
-1.20
absolute magnitude
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HR 3679K-type
Sky regionVelathis direction
StarHR 369156 ly
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Bright stars in Vela
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.