B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2922

HR 2922 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 222 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,761 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 55.46× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 222 years ago.

222 lybrightness mag 4.65B8V

Also catalogued as HD 60863 · HIP 36917

11,761 K
temperature
4.65
apparent magnitude
55.46× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
222 years
at light speed from Earth
2.04×
as hot as the Sun
55.46×
the Sun's light output
0.49
absolute magnitude
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HR 2922B-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarHR 263730 ly
StarHR 300249 ly
StarHR 313150 ly
StarNaosstar
StarPi Pupstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Puppis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.7To see it no equipment neededLook 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.