B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3661

692 lybrightness mag 5.56B8V

Also catalogued as HD 79416 · HIP 45189

11,692 K

temperature

5.56

apparent magnitude

234× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

692 years

at light speed from Earth

2.03×

as hot as the Sun

234×

the Sun's light output

-1.07

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3661B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HD 81575 →48 ly apart
HR 3667 →60 ly apart
HR 3488 →71 ly apart
HR 3535 →75 ly apart
HR 3674 →81 ly apart
HR 3677 →86 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?

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.