A-type star · white star

HR 3783

HR 3783 is a white star in the constellation Carina 253 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,978 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 253 years ago.

253 lybrightness mag 5.90A0V

Also catalogued as HD 82406 · HIP 46460

9,978 K
temperature
5.90
apparent magnitude
22.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
253 years
at light speed from Earth
1.73×
as hot as the Sun
22.91×
the Sun's light output
1.45
absolute magnitude
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HR 3783A-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.