B-type star · blue-white star
HR 2911
HR 2911 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 1,186 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,216 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 782× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,186 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 60606 · HIP 36778
11,216 K
temperature
5.42
apparent magnitude
782× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2Vne
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,186 years
at light speed from Earth
1.94×
as hot as the Sun
782×
the Sun's light output
-2.38
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.