B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3273

HR 3273 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 767 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,231 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 128× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 767 years ago.

767 lybrightness mag 6.44B8Ib/II

Also catalogued as HD 70235 · HIP 40787

11,231 K
temperature
6.44
apparent magnitude
128× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8Ib/II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
767 years
at light speed from Earth
1.95×
as hot as the Sun
128×
the Sun's light output
-0.42
absolute magnitude
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HR 3273B-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.