A-type star · white star

HR 2874

HR 2874 is a white star in the constellation Puppis 3,106 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,844 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 9,070× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 3,106 years ago.

3,106 lybrightness mag 4.85A6Ib/II

Also catalogued as HD 59612 · HIP 36431

7,844 K

temperature

4.85

apparent magnitude

9,070× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A6Ib/II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

3,106 years

at light speed from Earth

1.36×

as hot as the Sun

9,070×

the Sun's light output

-5.04

absolute magnitude

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HR 2874A-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

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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.