B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3089

HR 3089 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 759 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 14,300 K, about 2.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 663× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 758 years ago.

759 lybrightness mag 4.63B1.5Vp

Also catalogued as HD 64740 · HIP 38500

14,300 K
temperature
4.63
apparent magnitude
663× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B1.5Vp
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
758 years
at light speed from Earth
2.48×
as hot as the Sun
663×
the Sun's light output
-2.20
absolute magnitude
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HR 3089B-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarHR 324757 ly
StarHR 315663 ly
StarHR 325673 ly
StarNaosstar
StarPi Pupstar
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Bright stars in Puppis
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.6To 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.