B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3389

834 lybrightness mag 5.92B5III

Also catalogued as HD 72832 · HIP 42001

11,814 K

temperature

5.92

apparent magnitude

244× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

834 years

at light speed from Earth

2.05×

as hot as the Sun

244×

the Sun's light output

-1.12

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3389B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3155 →97 ly apart
HR 3273 →98 ly apart
Alp Pyx →100 ly apart
HR 3166 →100 ly apart
HR 3343 →110 ly apart
HR 3237 →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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To 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.