K-type star · orange
HR 3730
HR 3730 is an orange in the constellation Vela 531 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,988 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 117× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 531 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 81136 · HIP 45962
4,988 K
temperature
5.74
apparent magnitude
117× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G6/G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
531 years
at light speed from Earth
0.86×
as hot as the Sun
117×
the Sun's light output
-0.32
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.