A-type star · white star

HR 3381

HR 3381 is a white star in the constellation Pyxis 237 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,658 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 15.35× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 237 years ago.

237 lybrightness mag 6.19F2IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 72626 · HIP 41949

7,658 K

temperature

6.19

apparent magnitude

15.35× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

237 years

at light speed from Earth

1.33×

as hot as the Sun

15.35×

the Sun's light output

1.89

absolute magnitude

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HR 3381A-type

Sky regionPyxisthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.2To 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.