B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3986

HR 3986 is a blue-white star in the constellation Hydra 566 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,213 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 83.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 566 years ago.

566 lybrightness mag 6.25A0V

Also catalogued as HD 88025 · HIP 49689

10,213 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
83.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
566 years
at light speed from Earth
1.77×
as hot as the Sun
83.02×
the Sun's light output
0.05
absolute magnitude
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HR 3986B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Hydra

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.