F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 3144

HR 3144 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Canis Minor 208 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,088 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.51× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 208 years ago.

208 lybrightness mag 6.22G0IV

Also catalogued as HD 66011 · HIP 39271

6,088 K

temperature

6.22

apparent magnitude

11.51× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G0IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

208 years

at light speed from Earth

1.05×

as hot as the Sun

11.51×

the Sun's light output

2.20

absolute magnitude

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HR 3144F-type

Sky regionCanis Minorthis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Canis Minor

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Canis Minor

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.