B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3205

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3205B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3137 →59 ly apart
HD 70309 →98 ly apart
HR 3444 →100 ly apart
HR 3234 →110 ly apart
HR 3203 →110 ly apart
HR 3151 →110 ly apart

Bright stars in Puppis

Naos →mag 2.2
Pi Pup →mag 2.7
Tureis →mag 2.8
Tau Pup →mag 2.9
Pipit →mag 3.2
Sig Pup →mag 3.3
Azmidi →mag 3.3
3 Pup →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

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.