B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2579

475 lybrightness mag 6.47B8V

Also catalogued as HD 50860 · HIP 33015

11,590 K

temperature

6.47

apparent magnitude

47.64× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

475 years

at light speed from Earth

2.01×

as hot as the Sun

47.64×

the Sun's light output

0.66

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2579B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2658 →37 ly apart
HR 2761 →41 ly apart
HR 2462 →41 ly apart
HR 2488 →52 ly apart
HR 2791 →57 ly apart
HR 2407 →57 ly apart

Bright stars in Puppis

Naos →mag 2.2
Pi Pup →mag 2.7
Tureis →mag 2.8
Tau Pup →mag 2.9
Pipit →mag 3.2
Sig Pup →mag 3.3
Azmidi →mag 3.3
3 Pup →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Puppis

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.