B-type star · blue-white star

HD 87652

571 lybrightness mag 6.23B8/B9III

Also catalogued as HIP 49394

10,853 K

temperature

6.23

apparent magnitude

86.06× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8/B9III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

571 years

at light speed from Earth

1.88×

as hot as the Sun

86.06×

the Sun's light output

0.01

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HD 87652B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3904 →50 ly apart
Markeb →74 ly apart
HR 4135 →79 ly apart
HD 94275 →90 ly apart
HR 4221 →90 ly apart
HR 3730 →93 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.