K-type star · orange

HR 3178

1,186 lybrightness mag 5.96G5II

Also catalogued as HD 67249 · HIP 39527

4,283 K

temperature

5.96

apparent magnitude

476× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G5II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,186 years

at light speed from Earth

0.74×

as hot as the Sun

476×

the Sun's light output

-1.84

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3178K-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3100 →52 ly apart
HD 67621 →82 ly apart
Gam2Vel →96 ly apart
HR 3213 →98 ly apart
HR 3250 →100 ly apart
HR 3375 →110 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 6.0To 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.