B-type star · blue-white star

HD 76004

1,681 lybrightness mag 6.38B3V

Also catalogued as HIP 43520

12,489 K

temperature

6.38

apparent magnitude

649× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,681 years

at light speed from Earth

2.16×

as hot as the Sun

649×

the Sun's light output

-2.18

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HD 76004B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3501 →120 ly apart
HR 3426 →170 ly apart
HR 3487 →180 ly apart
HR 3322 →190 ly apart
HR 3294 →200 ly apart
HR 3680 →200 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 6.4To 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.