B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3159

HR 3159 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 499 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,967 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 243× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 499 years ago.

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
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HR 3159B-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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Bright stars in Carina
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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.