B-type star · blue-white star

HR 2937

360 lybrightness mag 4.53B8IV/V

Also catalogued as HD 61330 · HIP 37096

11,263 K

temperature

4.53

apparent magnitude

164× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B8IV/V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

360 years

at light speed from Earth

1.95×

as hot as the Sun

164×

the Sun's light output

-0.69

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

HR 2937B-type

Sky regionPuppisthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 3080 →40 ly apart
HR 3199 →49 ly apart
HR 2948 →52 ly apart
HR 2955 →52 ly apart
HR 2641 →56 ly apart
HR 3238 →59 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 4.5To 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.