B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3943

1,792 lybrightness mag 6.06B3V

Also catalogued as HD 86523 · HIP 48835

12,048 K

temperature

6.06

apparent magnitude

991× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,792 years

at light speed from Earth

2.09×

as hot as the Sun

991×

the Sun's light output

-2.64

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3943B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4066 →160 ly apart
HR 4063 →240 ly apart
HR 3868 →250 ly apart
HR 3680 →250 ly apart
Phi Vel →270 ly apart
HR 4038 →330 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 6.1To 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.