B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3413
HR 3413 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 446 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,141 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 78.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 446 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 73340 · HIP 42177
12,141 K
temperature
5.79
apparent magnitude
78.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8 Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
446 years
at light speed from Earth
2.10×
as hot as the Sun
78.70×
the Sun's light output
0.11
absolute magnitude
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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.