B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3203

916 lybrightness mag 5.66B8Ib/II

Also catalogued as HD 68161 · HIP 39919

11,590 K

temperature

5.66

apparent magnitude

374× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8Ib/II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

916 years

at light speed from Earth

2.01×

as hot as the Sun

374×

the Sun's light output

-1.58

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3203B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HD 70309 →37 ly apart
HR 3129 →53 ly apart
HR 3151 →57 ly apart
HR 3227 →74 ly apart
HR 3137 →92 ly apart
HR 3407 →95 ly apart

Bright stars in Vela

Gam2Vel →mag 1.8
Alsephina →mag 1.9
Suhail →mag 2.2
Markeb →mag 2.5
Mu Vel →mag 2.7
Phi Vel →mag 3.5
Psi Vel →mag 3.6
Kalausi →mag 8.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Vela

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.