A-type star · white star

HR 3344

HR 3344 is a white star in the constellation Pyxis 531 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,434 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 58.02× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 531 years ago.

531 lybrightness mag 6.50A1/A2V

Also catalogued as HD 71815 · HIP 41572

9,434 K
temperature
6.50
apparent magnitude
58.02× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1/A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
531 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
58.02×
the Sun's light output
0.44
absolute magnitude
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HR 3344A-type
Sky regionPyxisthis direction
StarHR 330834 ly
StarHR 327949 ly
StarHR 331564 ly
StarAlpha Pyxstar
StarBeta Pyxstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Pyxis
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.