B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3453

1,977 lybrightness mag 5.90B1.5V

Also catalogued as HD 74273 · HIP 42614

13,256 K

temperature

5.90

apparent magnitude

1,397× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B1.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,977 years

at light speed from Earth

2.30×

as hot as the Sun

1,397×

the Sun's light output

-3.01

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3453B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3476 →130 ly apart
HD 72798 →140 ly apart
HR 3371 →160 ly apart
HR 3487 →160 ly apart
HR 3358 →170 ly apart
HD 69404 →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?

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.