B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3447

493 lybrightness mag 3.60B3IV

Also catalogued as HD 74195 · HIP 42536

12,860 K

temperature

3.60

apparent magnitude

724× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

493 years

at light speed from Earth

2.23×

as hot as the Sun

724×

the Sun's light output

-2.30

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3447B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3466 →6.8 ly apart
HR 3467 →9.4 ly apart
HR 3448 →13 ly apart
HR 3382 →27 ly apart
HR 3435 →30 ly apart
HR 3503 →32 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 3.6To 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.