B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3152

HR 3152 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 1,062 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,795 K, about 1.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 279× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,062 years ago.

1,062 lybrightness mag 6.30B8III

Also catalogued as HD 66341 · HIP 39073

10,795 K
temperature
6.30
apparent magnitude
279× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,062 years
at light speed from Earth
1.87×
as hot as the Sun
279×
the Sun's light output
-1.26
absolute magnitude
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HR 3152B-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Carina

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.