B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2911

1,186 lybrightness mag 5.42B2Vne

Also catalogued as HD 60606 · HIP 36778

11,216 K

temperature

5.42

apparent magnitude

782× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B2Vne

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,186 years

at light speed from Earth

1.94×

as hot as the Sun

782×

the Sun's light output

-2.38

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2911B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2964 →59 ly apart
HR 3017 →78 ly apart
HR 2823 →120 ly apart
HR 2847 →120 ly apart
HR 3035 →150 ly apart
HR 2873 →150 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 5.4To 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.