B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3118

HR 3118 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 1,035 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,556 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 288× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,035 years ago.

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
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HR 3118B-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
StarHR 323456 ly
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StarPi Pupstar
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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.