A-type star · white star
HR 3233
HR 3233 is a white star in the constellation Puppis 593 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,951 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 79.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 593 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 68862 · HIP 40220
8,951 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
79.29× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
593 years
at light speed from Earth
1.55×
as hot as the Sun
79.29×
the Sun's light output
0.10
absolute magnitude
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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.