B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3467
HR 3467 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 485 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,967 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 225× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 485 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 74560 · HIP 42726
12,967 K
temperature
4.83
apparent magnitude
225× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
485 years
at light speed from Earth
2.25×
as hot as the Sun
225×
the Sun's light output
-1.03
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.