A-type star · white star

HR 3761

HR 3761 is a white star in the constellation Carina 228 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,597 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.13× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 228 years ago.

228 lybrightness mag 6.05A3Vn

Also catalogued as HD 82068 · HIP 46328

8,597 K
temperature
6.05
apparent magnitude
16.13× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
228 years
at light speed from Earth
1.49×
as hot as the Sun
16.13×
the Sun's light output
1.83
absolute magnitude
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HR 3761A-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Carina

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.