B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2875

HR 2875 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 538 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,449 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 163× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 538 years ago.

538 lybrightness mag 5.41B3V

Also catalogued as HD 59635 · HIP 36363

12,449 K
temperature
5.41
apparent magnitude
163× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B3V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
538 years
at light speed from Earth
2.16×
as hot as the Sun
163×
the Sun's light output
-0.68
absolute magnitude
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HR 2875B-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarHR 296126 ly
StarHR 294535 ly
StarHR 275937 ly
StarNaosstar
StarPi Pupstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Puppis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To 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.