B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3237

929 lybrightness mag 4.78B2ne

Also catalogued as HD 68980 · HIP 40274

11,744 K

temperature

4.78

apparent magnitude

865× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2ne

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

929 years

at light speed from Earth

2.03×

as hot as the Sun

865×

the Sun's light output

-2.49

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3237B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3343 →50 ly apart
HR 3240 →87 ly apart
HR 3282 →95 ly apart
HR 3096 →110 ly apart
HR 3205 →120 ly apart
Alp Pyx →120 ly apart

Bright stars in Puppis

Naos →mag 2.2
Pi Pup →mag 2.7
Tureis →mag 2.8
Tau Pup →mag 2.9
Pipit →mag 3.2
Sig Pup →mag 3.3
Azmidi →mag 3.3
3 Pup →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Puppis

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.