B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3383

HR 3383 is a blue-white star in the constellation Hydra 295 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,039 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.01× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 295 years ago.

295 lybrightness mag 5.80A1V

Also catalogued as HD 72660 · HIP 42028

10,039 K
temperature
5.80
apparent magnitude
34.01× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
295 years
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
34.01×
the Sun's light output
1.02
absolute magnitude
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HR 3383B-type
Sky regionHydrathis direction
StarHR 347817 ly
Star3 Hya32 ly
Star17 Hya41 ly
StarGamma Hyastar
StarZeta Hyastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Hydra
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Hydra

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.