F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 3701
HR 3701 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Lynx 139 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,989 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.65× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 139 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 80441 · HIP 45858
6,989 K
temperature
6.12
apparent magnitude
5.65× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3V+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
139 years
at light speed from Earth
1.21×
as hot as the Sun
5.65×
the Sun's light output
2.97
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.