B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3081

HR 3081 is a blue-white star in the constellation Volans 492 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,653 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 96.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 492 years ago.

492 lybrightness mag 5.78B9V

Also catalogued as HD 64484 · HIP 38210

10,653 K
temperature
5.78
apparent magnitude
96.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B9V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
492 years
at light speed from Earth
1.85×
as hot as the Sun
96.56×
the Sun's light output
-0.11
absolute magnitude
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HR 3081B-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To see it no equipment neededLook toward Volans

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.