B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3927

HR 3927 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 303 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,051 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 39.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 303 years ago.

303 lybrightness mag 5.71A0V

Also catalogued as HD 86087 · HIP 48613

10,051 K
temperature
5.71
apparent magnitude
39.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
303 years
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
39.05×
the Sun's light output
0.87
absolute magnitude
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HR 3927B-type
Sky regionVelathis direction
StarHR 396422 ly
StarHR 391030 ly
StarHD 7909138 ly
StarGamma² Velstar
StarAlsephinastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Vela
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.