G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 3232
HR 3232 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Vela 2,452 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,868 K, and it shines at 2,423× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,452 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 68808 · HIP 40155
5,868 K
temperature
5.77
apparent magnitude
2,423× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F7p
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,452 years
at light speed from Earth
1.02×
as hot as the Sun
2,423×
the Sun's light output
-3.61
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.