B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3161

HR 3161 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 658 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,409 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 109× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 658 years ago.

658 lybrightness mag 6.28B4V

Also catalogued as HD 66607 · HIP 39238

12,409 K

temperature

6.28

apparent magnitude

109× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

658 years

at light speed from Earth

2.15×

as hot as the Sun

109×

the Sun's light output

-0.24

absolute magnitude

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HR 3161B-type

Sky regionCarinathis direction

Nearest stars

Bright stars in Carina

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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.