G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
HR 2957
HR 2957 is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Puppis 3,136 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,660 K, and it shines at 4,305× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 3,136 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 61715 · HIP 37174
5,660 K
temperature
5.68
apparent magnitude
4,305× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F4Iab
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
3,136 years
at light speed from Earth
0.98×
as hot as the Sun
4,305×
the Sun's light output
-4.24
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.