B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3488

717 lybrightness mag 6.21B9V

Also catalogued as HD 75081 · HIP 43073

10,795 K

temperature

6.21

apparent magnitude

138× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

717 years

at light speed from Earth

1.87×

as hot as the Sun

138×

the Sun's light output

-0.50

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3488B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3535 →38 ly apart
HR 3326 →50 ly apart
HR 3661 →71 ly apart
HR 3667 →74 ly apart
HD 72752 →91 ly apart
HD 81575 →98 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.