B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3490

1,254 lybrightness mag 6.33B3V

Also catalogued as HD 75112 · HIP 43114

12,048 K

temperature

6.33

apparent magnitude

378× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,254 years

at light speed from Earth

2.09×

as hot as the Sun

378×

the Sun's light output

-1.59

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3490B-type

Sky regionPyxisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3534 →120 ly apart
HR 3399 →120 ly apart
HR 3514 →130 ly apart
HR 3548 →130 ly apart
HR 3241 →180 ly apart
HR 3296 →200 ly apart

Bright stars in Pyxis

Alp Pyx →mag 3.7
Bet Pyx →mag 4.0
Gam Pyx →mag 4.0
Kap Pyx →mag 4.6
The Pyx →mag 4.7
Lam Pyx →mag 4.7
Zet Pyx →mag 4.9
Del Pyx →mag 4.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Pyxis

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.