B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3151

HR 3151 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 968 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,327 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 271× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.1 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 968 years ago.

968 lybrightness mag 6.13A0p

Also catalogued as HD 66255 · HIP 39153

11,327 K

temperature

6.13

apparent magnitude

271× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0p

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

968 years

at light speed from Earth

1.96×

as hot as the Sun

271×

the Sun's light output

-1.23

absolute magnitude

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HR 3151B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

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Bright stars in Puppis

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Brightness mag 6.1To 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.