B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3156

HR 3156 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 767 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,178 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 216× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 767 years ago.

767 lybrightness mag 5.87B5Vn

Also catalogued as HD 66441 · HIP 39184

12,178 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
216× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B5Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
767 years
at light speed from Earth
2.11×
as hot as the Sun
216×
the Sun's light output
-0.99
absolute magnitude
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HR 3156B-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.