B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3114

HR 3114 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 1,568 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,817 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,445× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,568 years ago.

1,568 lybrightness mag 5.36B2.5V

Also catalogued as HD 65460 · HIP 38846

12,817 K

temperature

5.36

apparent magnitude

1,445× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2.5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,568 years

at light speed from Earth

2.22×

as hot as the Sun

1,445×

the Sun's light output

-3.05

absolute magnitude

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HR 3114B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

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Bright stars in Puppis

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.4To 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.