B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3388

HR 3388 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 1,531 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,549 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 491× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,531 years ago.

1,531 lybrightness mag 6.48B2/B3V

Also catalogued as HD 72787 · HIP 41970

12,549 K
temperature
6.48
apparent magnitude
491× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2/B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,531 years
at light speed from Earth
2.17×
as hot as the Sun
491×
the Sun's light output
-1.88
absolute magnitude
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HR 3388B-type
Sky regionVelathis direction
StarHR 337335 ly
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Vela
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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.