B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3004
HR 3004 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 2,589 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 13,372 K, about 2.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3,099× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 2,589 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 62747 · HIP 37751
13,372 K
temperature
5.62
apparent magnitude
3,099× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
2,589 years
at light speed from Earth
2.32×
as hot as the Sun
3,099×
the Sun's light output
-3.88
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.