B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2873

1,069 lybrightness mag 5.78B2IV

Also catalogued as HD 59550 · HIP 36362

13,234 K

temperature

5.78

apparent magnitude

457× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,069 years

at light speed from Earth

2.29×

as hot as the Sun

457×

the Sun's light output

-1.80

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2873B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2847 →46 ly apart
HR 2823 →48 ly apart
HR 2856 →62 ly apart
HD 59235 →120 ly apart
HR 2954 →120 ly apart
HR 3099 →120 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 5.8To 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.