B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3466

HR 3466 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 499 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,048 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 130× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 499 years ago.

499 lybrightness mag 5.49B8...

Also catalogued as HD 74535 · HIP 42715

12,048 K
temperature
5.49
apparent magnitude
130× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
499 years
at light speed from Earth
2.09×
as hot as the Sun
130×
the Sun's light output
-0.43
absolute magnitude
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HR 3466B-type
Sky regionVelathis direction
StarHR 34476.8 ly
StarHR 346715 ly
StarHR 344819 ly
StarGamma² Velstar
StarAlsephinastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Vela
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To 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.