B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3035

HR 3035 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 1,056 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,779 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 855× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,056 years ago.

1,056 lybrightness mag 5.07B2IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 63465 · HIP 38010

11,779 K

temperature

5.07

apparent magnitude

855× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,056 years

at light speed from Earth

2.04×

as hot as the Sun

855×

the Sun's light output

-2.48

absolute magnitude

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HR 3035B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

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Bright stars in Puppis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To 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.