A-type star · white star
HR 3792
HR 3792 is a white star in the constellation Leo 272 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,766 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.28× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 272 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 82523 · HIP 46891
8,766 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
15.28× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3Vnn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
272 years
at light speed from Earth
1.52×
as hot as the Sun
15.28×
the Sun's light output
1.89
absolute magnitude
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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.