B-type star · blue-white star
HR 2860
HR 2860 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 965 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,375 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 309× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 965 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 59136 · HIP 36236
11,375 K
temperature
5.98
apparent magnitude
309× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
965 years
at light speed from Earth
1.97×
as hot as the Sun
309×
the Sun's light output
-1.38
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.