B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3204

1,250 lybrightness mag 5.20B2IV-V

Also catalogued as HD 68217 · HIP 39961

12,967 K

temperature

5.20

apparent magnitude

1,064× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV-V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,250 years

at light speed from Earth

2.25×

as hot as the Sun

1,064×

the Sun's light output

-2.72

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3204B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HD 69168 →64 ly apart
HR 3250 →79 ly apart
HD 67621 →96 ly apart
HR 3375 →130 ly apart
HR 3244 →130 ly apart
HR 3187 →150 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 5.2To 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.