B-type star · blue-white star
HR 2981
HR 2981 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 593 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,103 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 197× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 593 years ago.
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
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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.