A-type star · white star
HR 3270
HR 3270 is a white star in the constellation Puppis 93.4 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,997 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.96× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 93 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 70060 · HIP 40706 · Gliese GJ 1109
7,997 K
temperature
4.44
apparent magnitude
11.96× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A4m...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
93 years
at light speed from Earth
1.39×
as hot as the Sun
11.96×
the Sun's light output
2.16
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.