B-type star · blue-white star

HR 3186

HR 3186 is a blue-white star in the constellation Carina 1,199 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,456 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 372× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,199 years ago.

1,199 lybrightness mag 6.25B2.5Vn

Also catalogued as HD 67536 · HIP 39530

11,456 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
372× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B2.5Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,199 years
at light speed from Earth
1.98×
as hot as the Sun
372×
the Sun's light output
-1.58
absolute magnitude
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HR 3186B-type
Sky regionCarinathis direction
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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.