B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3710

HR 3710 is a blue-white star in the constellation Pyxis 600 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,359 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 81.06× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 600 years ago.

600 lybrightness mag 6.40B8V

Also catalogued as HD 80590 · HIP 45754

11,359 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
81.06× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
600 years
at light speed from Earth
1.97×
as hot as the Sun
81.06×
the Sun's light output
0.08
absolute magnitude
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HR 3710B-type
Sky regionPyxisthis direction
StarHR 367758 ly
StarHR 372687 ly
StarHR 358587 ly
StarAlpha Pyxstar
StarBeta Pyxstar
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Bright stars in Pyxis
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pyxis

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.