B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3006

HR 3006 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 1,254 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,473 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 355× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,254 years ago.

1,254 lybrightness mag 6.40B2.5V

Also catalogued as HD 62758 · HIP 37530

11,473 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
355× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,254 years
at light speed from Earth
1.99×
as hot as the Sun
355×
the Sun's light output
-1.52
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Carina

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.