B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2726

909 lybrightness mag 5.94B4V

Also catalogued as HD 55718 · HIP 34817

12,390 K

temperature

5.94

apparent magnitude

284× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

909 years

at light speed from Earth

2.15×

as hot as the Sun

284×

the Sun's light output

-1.28

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2726B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

Pi Pup →100 ly apart
HR 2787 →110 ly apart
HR 2598 →110 ly apart
HR 2680 →110 ly apart
HR 2549 →120 ly apart
HR 2954 →120 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 5.9To 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.