A-type star · white star
HR 3226
HR 3226 is a white star in the constellation Puppis. Its surface is about 8,453 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 111,686,325× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye.
brightness mag 4.73A7Ib
Also catalogued as HD 68601 · HIP 40096
8,453 K
temperature
4.73
apparent magnitude
111,686,325× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A7Ib
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.46×
as hot as the Sun
111,686,325×
the Sun's light output
-15.27
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.