B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3941

HR 3941 is a blue-white star in the constellation Vela 2,673 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,831 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2,066× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 2,673 years ago.

2,673 lybrightness mag 6.13B3IV

Also catalogued as HD 86466 · HIP 48799

11,831 K

temperature

6.13

apparent magnitude

2,066× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,673 years

at light speed from Earth

2.05×

as hot as the Sun

2,066×

the Sun's light output

-3.44

absolute magnitude

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HR 3941B-type

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Brightness mag 6.1To 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.