B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3883
HR 3883 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 929 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,709 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 182× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 929 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 84809 · HIP 47893
11,709 K
temperature
6.47
apparent magnitude
182× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III/IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
929 years
at light speed from Earth
2.03×
as hot as the Sun
182×
the Sun's light output
-0.80
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.