B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2968

1,400 lybrightness mag 5.99B4III

Also catalogued as HD 61925 · HIP 37345

10,653 K

temperature

5.99

apparent magnitude

644× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,400 years

at light speed from Earth

1.85×

as hot as the Sun

644×

the Sun's light output

-2.17

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2968B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2819 →170 ly apart
HR 2881 →200 ly apart
HR 2911 →220 ly apart
HR 3187 →220 ly apart
HR 3283 →230 ly apart
HR 3114 →240 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 6.0To 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.