B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3348

HR 3348 is a blue-white star in the constellation Lynx 826 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,639 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 188× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 826 years ago.

826 lybrightness mag 6.18A0V

Also catalogued as HD 71906 · HIP 41798

10,639 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
188× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
826 years
at light speed from Earth
1.84×
as hot as the Sun
188×
the Sun's light output
-0.84
absolute magnitude
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HR 3348B-type
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Lynx

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.