B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2856

1,032 lybrightness mag 5.90B4V

Also catalogued as HD 59026 · HIP 36143

12,549 K

temperature

5.90

apparent magnitude

381× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B4V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,032 years

at light speed from Earth

2.17×

as hot as the Sun

381×

the Sun's light output

-1.60

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2856B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2873 →62 ly apart
HR 2954 →70 ly apart
HR 2823 →86 ly apart
HR 2847 →93 ly apart
HR 3035 →110 ly apart
HR 2598 →140 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.