B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3118

1,035 lybrightness mag 6.21B5V

Also catalogued as HD 65598 · HIP 38879

11,556 K

temperature

6.21

apparent magnitude

288× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B5V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,035 years

at light speed from Earth

2.00×

as hot as the Sun

288×

the Sun's light output

-1.30

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3118B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3234 →56 ly apart
HR 3151 →70 ly apart
HR 3137 →71 ly apart
HR 3129 →80 ly apart
HR 3213 →80 ly apart
Gam2Vel →91 ly apart

Bright stars in Puppis

Naos →mag 2.2
Pi Pup →mag 2.7
Tureis →mag 2.8
Tau Pup →mag 2.9
Pipit →mag 3.2
Sig Pup →mag 3.3
Azmidi →mag 3.3
3 Pup →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To 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.