B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3442

443 lybrightness mag 5.18B4IV

Also catalogued as HD 74146 · HIP 42504

12,429 K

temperature

5.18

apparent magnitude

136× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

443 years

at light speed from Earth

2.15×

as hot as the Sun

136×

the Sun's light output

-0.48

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3442B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3440 →3.9 ly apart
HR 3413 →17 ly apart
HR 3503 →22 ly apart
HR 3448 →38 ly apart
HR 3542 →41 ly apart
HR 3467 →42 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 5.2To 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.