B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3753
HR 3753 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 429 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,607 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 139× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 429 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 81848 · HIP 46283
11,607 K
temperature
5.09
apparent magnitude
139× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
429 years
at light speed from Earth
2.01×
as hot as the Sun
139×
the Sun's light output
-0.51
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
Nearest stars
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.