B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3343

HR 3343 is a blue-white star in the constellation Pyxis 929 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,508 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 354× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 929 years ago.

929 lybrightness mag 5.75B2V

Also catalogued as HD 71801 · HIP 41515

12,508 K
temperature
5.75
apparent magnitude
354× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
929 years
at light speed from Earth
2.17×
as hot as the Sun
354×
the Sun's light output
-1.52
absolute magnitude
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HR 3343B-type
Sky regionPyxisthis direction
StarHR 323750 ly
StarAlpha Pyx78 ly
StarHR 328288 ly
StarBeta Pyxstar
StarGamma Pyxstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pyxis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Pyxis

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.