B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3001

651 lybrightness mag 6.42B8IV

Also catalogued as HD 62712 · HIP 37666

11,903 K

temperature

6.42

apparent magnitude

93.84× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

651 years

at light speed from Earth

2.06×

as hot as the Sun

93.84×

the Sun's light output

-0.08

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3001B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3032 →15 ly apart
HR 3084 →21 ly apart
HR 3011 →22 ly apart
HR 3041 →30 ly apart
HR 2994 →35 ly apart
HR 2895 →37 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?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.