A-type star · white star

HR 3148

HR 3148 is a white star in the constellation Puppis 330 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,630 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.25× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 330 years ago.

330 lybrightness mag 6.01A2V

Also catalogued as HD 66210 · HIP 39122

9,630 K
temperature
6.01
apparent magnitude
35.25× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
330 years
at light speed from Earth
1.67×
as hot as the Sun
35.25×
the Sun's light output
0.98
absolute magnitude
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HR 3148A-type
Sky regionPuppisthis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.0To 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.