B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3359
HR 3359 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 2,609 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,860 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5,420× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,609 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 72127 · HIP 41639
12,860 K
temperature
5.03
apparent magnitude
5,420× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,609 years
at light speed from Earth
2.23×
as hot as the Sun
5,420×
the Sun's light output
-4.49
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.