B-type star · blue-white star

HR 4221

526 lybrightness mag 5.14B8/B9III

Also catalogued as HD 93563 · HIP 52742

11,247 K

temperature

5.14

apparent magnitude

199× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8/B9III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

526 years

at light speed from Earth

1.95×

as hot as the Sun

199×

the Sun's light output

-0.90

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 4221B-type

Sky regionVelathis direction

Nearest stars

HD 94275 →31 ly apart
HR 4140 →63 ly apart
HR 4205 →73 ly apart
HR 3953 →76 ly apart
HR 4185 →77 ly apart
HR 4316 →79 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 5.1To 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.