B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2518

324 lybrightness mag 5.27B8/B9V

Also catalogued as HD 49591 · HIP 32537

11,216 K

temperature

5.27

apparent magnitude

67.11× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8/B9V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

324 years

at light speed from Earth

1.94×

as hot as the Sun

67.11×

the Sun's light output

0.28

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2518B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2316 →28 ly apart
HR 2444 →38 ly apart
HR 2666 →40 ly apart
HR 2263 →41 ly apart
HR 2307 →50 ly apart
HR 2399 →53 ly apart

Bright stars in Puppis

Naos →mag 2.2
Pi Pup →mag 2.7
Tureis →mag 2.8
Tau Pup →mag 2.9
Pipit →mag 3.2
Sig Pup →mag 3.3
Azmidi →mag 3.3
3 Pup →mag 3.9

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.3To see it no equipment neededLook toward Puppis

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.