B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2762

377 lybrightness mag 4.75B8/B9V

Also catalogued as HD 56456 · HIP 35020

11,424 K

temperature

4.75

apparent magnitude

146× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8/B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

377 years

at light speed from Earth

1.98×

as hot as the Sun

146×

the Sun's light output

-0.56

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2762B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2626 →29 ly apart
HR 2884 →36 ly apart
HR 2934 →40 ly apart
HR 2666 →48 ly apart
HR 2767 →50 ly apart
HR 3057 →53 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?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To see it no equipment neededLook 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.