B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3204

HR 3204 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 1,250 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,967 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,064× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,250 years ago.

1,250 lybrightness mag 5.20B2IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 68217 · HIP 39961

12,967 K

temperature

5.20

apparent magnitude

1,064× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,250 years

at light speed from Earth

2.25×

as hot as the Sun

1,064×

the Sun's light output

-2.72

absolute magnitude

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HR 3204B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Vela

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Vela

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.