B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3388

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3388B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3373 →35 ly apart
HR 3479 →87 ly apart
HR 3283 →90 ly apart
HR 3501 →140 ly apart
HR 3253 →170 ly apart
HR 3356 →180 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.