A-type star · white star

HR 3686

HR 3686 is a white star in the constellation Lynx 284 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,345 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.72× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 284 years ago.

284 lybrightness mag 5.94A8V

Also catalogued as HD 80024 · HIP 45661

8,345 K

temperature

5.94

apparent magnitude

27.72× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

284 years

at light speed from Earth

1.45×

as hot as the Sun

27.72×

the Sun's light output

1.24

absolute magnitude

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HR 3686A-type

Sky regionLynxthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook toward Lynx

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.