B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3234

1,045 lybrightness mag 6.00B5V

Also catalogued as HD 68895 · HIP 40183

11,796 K

temperature

6.00

apparent magnitude

356× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,045 years

at light speed from Earth

2.04×

as hot as the Sun

356×

the Sun's light output

-1.53

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3234B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3118 →56 ly apart
HR 3213 →69 ly apart
Gam2Vel →75 ly apart
HR 3137 →78 ly apart
HR 3116 →81 ly apart
HR 3151 →97 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 6.0To 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.