F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 2909
HR 2909 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Puppis 103 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,538 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 8.27× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 103 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 60584 · HIP 36817
6,538 K
temperature
5.06
apparent magnitude
8.27× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F6V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
103 years
at light speed from Earth
1.13×
as hot as the Sun
8.27×
the Sun's light output
2.56
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.