B-type star · blue-white star
HR 2907
HR 2907 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 767 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,085 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 150× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 767 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 60559 · HIP 36728
12,085 K
temperature
6.27
apparent magnitude
150× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8IV (p Si)
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
767 years
at light speed from Earth
2.09×
as hot as the Sun
150×
the Sun's light output
-0.59
absolute magnitude
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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.