A-type star · white star

HR 3737

HR 3737 is a white star in the constellation Vela 486 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,218 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 73.52× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 486 years ago.

486 lybrightness mag 6.05A6/A7III

Also catalogued as HD 81411 · HIP 46114

8,218 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
73.52× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A6/A7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
486 years
at light speed from Earth
1.42×
as hot as the Sun
73.52×
the Sun's light output
0.18
absolute magnitude
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HR 3737A-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Vela

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.