B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3359

2,609 lybrightness mag 5.03B+...

Also catalogued as HD 72127 · HIP 41639

12,860 K

temperature

5.03

apparent magnitude

5,420× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B+...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

2,609 years

at light speed from Earth

2.23×

as hot as the Sun

5,420×

the Sun's light output

-4.49

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3359B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3452 →160 ly apart
HR 3232 →220 ly apart
HR 3525 →230 ly apart
HR 3390 →390 ly apart
HR 3195 →400 ly apart
HD 81347 →450 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 5.0To 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.