B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3240

1,016 lybrightness mag 5.09B2V:

Also catalogued as HD 69081 · HIP 40321

13,211 K

temperature

5.09

apparent magnitude

778× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2V:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,016 years

at light speed from Earth

2.29×

as hot as the Sun

778×

the Sun's light output

-2.38

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3240B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3282 →64 ly apart
HR 3237 →87 ly apart
HR 3296 →90 ly apart
HR 3343 →100 ly apart
Naos →100 ly apart
HR 3362 →100 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To see it no equipment neededLook 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.