B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3363
HR 3363 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 576 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,048 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 110× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 576 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 72232 · HIP 41674
12,048 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
110× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
576 years
at light speed from Earth
2.09×
as hot as the Sun
110×
the Sun's light output
-0.26
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.