F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 3714
HR 3714 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Hydra 162 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,538 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 162 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 80719 · HIP 45854
6,538 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
6.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
162 years
at light speed from Earth
1.13×
as hot as the Sun
6.52×
the Sun's light output
2.81
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.