B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2963

HR 2963 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 572 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,011 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 137× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 572 years ago.

572 lybrightness mag 5.73B5V

Also catalogued as HD 61878 · HIP 37322

12,011 K
temperature
5.73
apparent magnitude
137× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
572 years
at light speed from Earth
2.08×
as hot as the Sun
137×
the Sun's light output
-0.49
absolute magnitude
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HR 2963B-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarHR 29455.7 ly
StarHD 6329114 ly
StarHR 296117 ly
StarNaosstar
StarPi Pupstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Puppis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.7To 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.