B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3990

1,331 lybrightness mag 4.85B3IV

Also catalogued as HD 88206 · HIP 49712

11,920 K

temperature

4.85

apparent magnitude

1,666× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,331 years

at light speed from Earth

2.07×

as hot as the Sun

1,666×

the Sun's light output

-3.20

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3990B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3872 →94 ly apart
HR 3955 →110 ly apart
HR 4143 →140 ly apart
HD 92155 →150 ly apart
HR 4009 →150 ly apart
HR 4114 →170 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 4.8To 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.