B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3600

HR 3600 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 429 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,197 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 90.03× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 429 years ago.

429 lybrightness mag 5.56B5V

Also catalogued as HD 77475 · HIP 44299

12,197 K
temperature
5.56
apparent magnitude
90.03× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
429 years
at light speed from Earth
2.11×
as hot as the Sun
90.03×
the Sun's light output
-0.04
absolute magnitude
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HR 3600B-type
Sky regionVelathis direction
StarHR 360234 ly
StarHR 380745 ly
StarHR 346352 ly
StarGamma² Velstar
StarAlsephinastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Vela
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.6To 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.