A-type star · white star
HR 3218
HR 3218 is a white star in the constellation Carina 394 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,132 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 69.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 394 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 68434 · HIP 39957
8,132 K
temperature
5.66
apparent magnitude
69.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3m...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
394 years
at light speed from Earth
1.41×
as hot as the Sun
69.18×
the Sun's light output
0.25
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.