A-type star · white star

HR 3760

HR 3760 is a white star in the constellation Hydra 420 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,997 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 50.63× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 420 years ago.

420 lybrightness mag 6.14F0III

Also catalogued as HD 82043 · HIP 46529

7,997 K
temperature
6.14
apparent magnitude
50.63× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
420 years
at light speed from Earth
1.39×
as hot as the Sun
50.63×
the Sun's light output
0.59
absolute magnitude
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HR 3760A-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
StarHR 380539 ly
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.1To 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.