B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3049

HR 3049 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 516 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,809 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 91.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 516 years ago.

516 lybrightness mag 5.94B9V

Also catalogued as HD 63786 · HIP 38167

10,809 K

temperature

5.94

apparent magnitude

91.71× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

516 years

at light speed from Earth

1.87×

as hot as the Sun

91.71×

the Sun's light output

-0.06

absolute magnitude

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HR 3049B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

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Bright stars in Puppis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To 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.