B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2863

921 lybrightness mag 5.55B9Vsp...

Also catalogued as HD 59256 · HIP 36258

10,766 K

temperature

5.55

apparent magnitude

419× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9Vsp...

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

921 years

at light speed from Earth

1.87×

as hot as the Sun

419×

the Sun's light output

-1.71

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2863B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

28Ome CMa →61 ly apart
HR 2774 →71 ly apart
HR 2686 →100 ly apart
HR 3096 →100 ly apart
26 CMa →110 ly apart
HR 2680 →110 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 5.5To 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.