B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3501

1,576 lybrightness mag 6.43B2IV

Also catalogued as HD 75387 · HIP 43209

13,077 K

temperature

6.43

apparent magnitude

545× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,576 years

at light speed from Earth

2.27×

as hot as the Sun

545×

the Sun's light output

-1.99

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3501B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HD 76004 →120 ly apart
HR 3388 →140 ly apart
HR 3373 →140 ly apart
HR 3479 →150 ly apart
HR 3356 →180 ly apart
HR 3283 →230 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 6.4To 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.