B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2981

593 lybrightness mag 5.41B3V

Also catalogued as HD 62226 · HIP 37450

12,103 K

temperature

5.41

apparent magnitude

197× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

593 years

at light speed from Earth

2.10×

as hot as the Sun

197×

the Sun's light output

-0.89

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2981B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3022 →12 ly apart
HR 2963 →21 ly apart
HD 63291 →23 ly apart
HR 2945 →26 ly apart
HR 2961 →38 ly apart
HR 2994 →42 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 5.4To 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.