B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3656

1,091 lybrightness mag 6.05B5III

Also catalogued as HD 79241 · HIP 45127

11,709 K

temperature

6.05

apparent magnitude

371× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,091 years

at light speed from Earth

2.03×

as hot as the Sun

371×

the Sun's light output

-1.57

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3656B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HD 75989 →85 ly apart
HR 3593 →95 ly apart
HR 3534 →110 ly apart
HR 3867 →140 ly apart
HR 3520 →140 ly apart
HR 3548 →150 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 6.0To 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.