B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3159

499 lybrightness mag 4.81B3V

Also catalogued as HD 66591 · HIP 39138

12,967 K

temperature

4.81

apparent magnitude

243× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B3V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

499 years

at light speed from Earth

2.25×

as hot as the Sun

243×

the Sun's light output

-1.11

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 3159B-type

Sky regionCarinathis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3081 →26 ly apart
HR 3139 →34 ly apart
HR 3298 →38 ly apart
HR 2754 →50 ly apart
HR 3443 →70 ly apart
HR 2674 →70 ly apart

Bright stars in Carina

Miaplacidus →mag 1.7
Avior →mag 1.9
Aspidiske →mag 2.2
The Car →mag 2.7
Ups Car →mag 2.9
Ome Car →mag 3.3
Chi Car →mag 3.5
Eta Car →mag 6.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.8To 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.