B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2895

HR 2895 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 641 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,506 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 96.92× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 641 years ago.

641 lybrightness mag 6.35B8V

Also catalogued as HD 60312 · HIP 36657

11,506 K
temperature
6.35
apparent magnitude
96.92× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
641 years
at light speed from Earth
1.99×
as hot as the Sun
96.92×
the Sun's light output
-0.12
absolute magnitude
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HR 2895B-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.