B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3898

843 lybrightness mag 5.09B7III

Also catalogued as HD 85355 · HIP 48224

11,539 K

temperature

5.09

apparent magnitude

535× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B7III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

843 years

at light speed from Earth

2.00×

as hot as the Sun

535×

the Sun's light output

-1.97

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3898B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3817 →64 ly apart
HD 81369 →99 ly apart
HR 3819 →110 ly apart
HD 81575 →130 ly apart
HR 3930 →130 ly apart
HR 4111 →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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To 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.