B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3060

HR 3060 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 458 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,163 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 46.05× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 458 years ago.

458 lybrightness mag 6.43B9.5V

Also catalogued as HD 64042 · HIP 38316

10,163 K
temperature
6.43
apparent magnitude
46.05× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9.5V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
458 years
at light speed from Earth
1.76×
as hot as the Sun
46.05×
the Sun's light output
0.69
absolute magnitude
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HR 3060B-type
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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.