B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2789

592 lybrightness mag 5.86B8II/III

Also catalogued as HD 57197 · HIP 35347

11,867 K

temperature

5.86

apparent magnitude

130× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8II/III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

592 years

at light speed from Earth

2.06×

as hot as the Sun

130×

the Sun's light output

-0.43

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2789B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2759 →52 ly apart
HR 2769 →62 ly apart
HR 2981 →72 ly apart
HR 3069 →74 ly apart
HR 2945 →75 ly apart
HR 2963 →75 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 5.9To 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.