M-type star · red

Suhail

Suhail is a red in the constellation Vela 545 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,561 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3,113× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 544 years ago.

545 lybrightness mag 2.23K4Ib-II

Also catalogued as Lambda Vel · HR 3634 · HD 78647 · HIP 44816

3,561 K
temperature
2.23
apparent magnitude
3,113× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4Ib-II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
544 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
3,113×
the Sun's light output
-3.88
absolute magnitude
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SuhailM-type
Sky regionVelathis direction
StarHR 366816 ly
StarHR 367222 ly
StarHR 373037 ly
StarGamma² Velstar
StarAlsephinastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Vela
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 2.2To 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.