F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 2913

HR 2913 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Puppis 268 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,481 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.22× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 268 years ago.

268 lybrightness mag 6.11A9IV

Also catalogued as HD 60646 · HIP 36807

7,481 K

temperature

6.11

apparent magnitude

21.22× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A9IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

268 years

at light speed from Earth

1.30×

as hot as the Sun

21.22×

the Sun's light output

1.53

absolute magnitude

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HR 2913F-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

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Brightness mag 6.1To 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.