F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 3969
HR 3969 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Leo 326 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,950 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.89× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 326 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 87500 · HIP 49445
6,950 K
temperature
6.36
apparent magnitude
24.89× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
326 years
at light speed from Earth
1.20×
as hot as the Sun
24.89×
the Sun's light output
1.36
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.