F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 3798

HR 3798 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Antlia 275 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,112 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 16.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 275 years ago.

275 lybrightness mag 6.43F3V

Also catalogued as HD 82610 · HIP 46810

7,112 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
16.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
275 years
at light speed from Earth
1.23×
as hot as the Sun
16.64×
the Sun's light output
1.80
absolute magnitude
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HR 3798F-type
Sky regionAntliathis direction
StarHR 383318 ly
StarHR 381030 ly
StarHR 379034 ly
StarAlpha Antstar
StarEpsilon Antstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Antlia
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Antlia

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.