F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 3879
HR 3879 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Sextans 263 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,205 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 31.07× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 263 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 84607 · HIP 47960
7,205 K
temperature
5.65
apparent magnitude
31.07× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F4IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
263 years
at light speed from Earth
1.25×
as hot as the Sun
31.07×
the Sun's light output
1.12
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.