B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3503

463 lybrightness mag 6.29B8V

Also catalogued as HD 75466 · HIP 43195

11,523 K

temperature

6.29

apparent magnitude

53.41× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

463 years

at light speed from Earth

2.00×

as hot as the Sun

53.41×

the Sun's light output

0.53

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3503B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3448 →20 ly apart
HR 3440 →21 ly apart
HR 3442 →22 ly apart
HR 3467 →23 ly apart
HR 3413 →27 ly apart
HR 3447 →32 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 6.3To 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.