B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3143
HR 3143 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis. Its surface is about 11,391 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24,660,393× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars.
brightness mag 6.37B2IV-V
Also catalogued as HD 66006 · HIP 39038
11,391 K
temperature
6.37
apparent magnitude
24,660,393× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2IV-V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
–
at light speed from Earth
1.97×
as hot as the Sun
24,660,393×
the Sun's light output
-13.63
absolute magnitude
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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.