B-type star · blue-white star
HR 3162
HR 3162 is a blue-white star in the constellation Puppis 480 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,529 K, about 2.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 117× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 480 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 66624 · HIP 39360
12,529 K
temperature
5.52
apparent magnitude
117× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
Ap Si
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
480 years
at light speed from Earth
2.17×
as hot as the Sun
117×
the Sun's light output
-0.32
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.