B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3955

1,231 lybrightness mag 6.20B2.5V

Also catalogued as HD 87152 · HIP 49137

12,235 K

temperature

6.20

apparent magnitude

411× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,231 years

at light speed from Earth

2.12×

as hot as the Sun

411×

the Sun's light output

-1.68

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3955B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3990 →110 ly apart
HR 4074 →110 ly apart
HR 4009 →120 ly apart
HD 88015 →130 ly apart
HR 3872 →140 ly apart
HR 4159 →140 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.