B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2944

619 lybrightness mag 4.69B8IV

Also catalogued as HD 61429 · HIP 37173

11,573 K

temperature

4.69

apparent magnitude

417× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

619 years

at light speed from Earth

2.01×

as hot as the Sun

417×

the Sun's light output

-1.70

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2944B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2923 →36 ly apart
HR 2822 →45 ly apart
HR 2802 →48 ly apart
HR 2826 →60 ly apart
HR 2960 →62 ly apart
HR 2756 →80 ly apart

Bright stars in Puppis

Naos →mag 2.2
Pi Pup →mag 2.7
Tureis →mag 2.8
Tau Pup →mag 2.9
Pipit →mag 3.2
Sig Pup →mag 3.3
Azmidi →mag 3.3
3 Pup →mag 3.9

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.