B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2762

HR 2762 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 377 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,424 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 146× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 377 years ago.

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
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HR 2762B-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarHR 262629 ly
StarHR 288436 ly
StarHR 293440 ly
StarNaosstar
StarPi Pupstar
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Bright stars in Puppis
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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.