B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3293

HR 3293 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 1,773 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,440 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,063× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,773 years ago.

1,773 lybrightness mag 5.96B1.5III

Also catalogued as HD 70839 · HIP 40932

11,440 K

temperature

5.96

apparent magnitude

1,063× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1.5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,773 years

at light speed from Earth

1.98×

as hot as the Sun

1,063×

the Sun's light output

-2.72

absolute magnitude

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HR 3293B-type

Sky regionCarinathis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Carina

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 6.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Carina

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.