B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2895

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

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2895B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2829 →21 ly apart
HR 2994 →28 ly apart
HR 3001 →37 ly apart
HR 2842 →39 ly apart
HR 3011 →48 ly apart
HR 3032 →52 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?

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.