B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3205

HR 3205 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 959 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,598 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 234× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 959 years ago.

959 lybrightness mag 6.27B+...

Also catalogued as HD 68242 · HIP 39974

10,598 K
temperature
6.27
apparent magnitude
234× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
959 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
234×
the Sun's light output
-1.07
absolute magnitude
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HR 3205B-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Puppis

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.