Warp wrote:
>   I think that getting something to be 6 million times brighter than the
> Sun can be pretty hard...

Note that I said "per square inch."   Sure, if your star is 92x as big as 
the Sun, it's going to be very bright in an absolute sense.

100x the heat of the *middle* of the Sun:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11732814/

Even the middle of lightning gets 2x as hot as the (presumedly, surface of 
the) star you referenced.

As I say, it's all about square inches.  The *middle* of the sun is 
15,000,000K. The surface is 15,000K. Big difference.

Since a star's surface is essentially a black body, it's pretty easy to 
calculate the temperature of it, and other black bodies the same color will 
be about the same temperature. So the hottest parts of lava are about the 
temperature of the sun's surface, and the hottest parts of a propane flame 
are about the same temperature as a blue star.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   You know the kamikaze monsters in Serious Sam
     with the bombs for hands, that go AAAAAHHHHHHHH!
   I want that for a ring tone.

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