B-type star · blue-white star

Chi Car

455 lybrightness mag 3.46B3IVp

Also catalogued as HR 3117 · HD 65575 · HIP 38827

13,055 K

temperature

3.46

apparent magnitude

700× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3IVp

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

455 years

at light speed from Earth

2.26×

as hot as the Sun

700×

the Sun's light output

-2.26

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Chi CarB-type

Sky regionCarinathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3133 →21 ly apart
HR 2892 →39 ly apart
HR 2940 →43 ly apart
HR 3413 →51 ly apart
HR 3440 →51 ly apart
HR 2815 →52 ly apart

Bright stars in Carina

Miaplacidus →mag 1.7
Avior →mag 1.9
Aspidiske →mag 2.2
The Car →mag 2.7
Ups Car →mag 2.9
Ome Car →mag 3.3
Eta Car →mag 6.2
Aiolos →mag 7.4

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Carina

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.