A-type star · white star

HR 3758

HR 3758 is a white star in the constellation Hydra 258 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,631 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 258 years ago.

258 lybrightness mag 6.27F0Vn

Also catalogued as HD 81980 · HIP 46504

7,631 K
temperature
6.27
apparent magnitude
16.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
258 years
at light speed from Earth
1.32×
as hot as the Sun
16.92×
the Sun's light output
1.78
absolute magnitude
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HR 3758A-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hydra

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.