B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3886

997 lybrightness mag 5.58B2.5IV

Also catalogued as HD 84816 · HIP 47963

13,033 K

temperature

5.58

apparent magnitude

477× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2.5IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

997 years

at light speed from Earth

2.26×

as hot as the Sun

477×

the Sun's light output

-1.85

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3886B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3925 →26 ly apart
HR 3912 →68 ly apart
HR 3658 →110 ly apart
HR 3819 →150 ly apart
HR 3898 →160 ly apart
HR 3593 →160 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 5.6To 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.