B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2948

347 lybrightness mag 3.80B5IV

Also catalogued as HD 61555 · HIP 37229

12,671 K

temperature

3.80

apparent magnitude

297× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

347 years

at light speed from Earth

2.20×

as hot as the Sun

297×

the Sun's light output

-1.33

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2948B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2916 →24 ly apart
HR 2988 →31 ly apart
HD 63734 →51 ly apart
HR 2937 →52 ly apart
HR 3068 →55 ly apart
HR 2664 →55 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 3.8To 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.