A-type star · white star

HR 2900

276 lybrightness mag 5.84A3III

Also catalogued as HD 60345 · HIP 36721

8,520 K

temperature

5.84

apparent magnitude

28.71× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

276 years

at light speed from Earth

1.48×

as hot as the Sun

28.71×

the Sun's light output

1.21

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2900A-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3043 →18 ly apart
HR 2750 →23 ly apart
HR 2899 →26 ly apart
HD 56578 →34 ly apart
HR 3068 →41 ly apart
HR 2913 →42 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 5.8To 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.