K-type star · orange

HR 3668

537 lybrightness mag 6.27K2III

Also catalogued as HD 79524 · HIP 45242

4,213 K

temperature

6.27

apparent magnitude

73.38× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

537 years

at light speed from Earth

0.73×

as hot as the Sun

73.38×

the Sun's light output

0.19

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3668K-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

Suhail →16 ly apart
HR 3672 →21 ly apart
HR 3730 →39 ly apart
HR 3726 →40 ly apart
HR 3716 →52 ly apart
HR 3670 →54 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.