B-type star · blue-white star

HD 69168

1,279 lybrightness mag 6.49B3V

Also catalogued as HIP 40299

12,671 K

temperature

6.49

apparent magnitude

339× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,279 years

at light speed from Earth

2.20×

as hot as the Sun

339×

the Sun's light output

-1.48

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HD 69168B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HD 67621 →56 ly apart
HR 3204 →64 ly apart
HR 3244 →81 ly apart
HR 3250 →99 ly apart
HR 3375 →110 ly apart
HR 3187 →120 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.